From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dylan Reid Subject: Re: Audio mini conference 2014? Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 10:16:23 -0700 Message-ID: References: <53EA6165.3070902@zonque.org> <20140813165517.GB17528@sirena.org.uk> <20140817231021.GQ14537@sirena.org.uk> <20140819172948.GX13288@intel.com> <20140820042109.GY13288@intel.com> <20140820070236.GC13288@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-oa0-f51.google.com (mail-oa0-f51.google.com [209.85.219.51]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00E062656FE for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 19:16:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-oa0-f51.google.com with SMTP id o6so6623852oag.24 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 10:16:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Takashi Iwai Cc: "alsa-devel@alsa-project.org" , Vinod Koul , Tanu Kaskinen , Paul Handrigan , Mark Brown , David Henningsson , Daniel Mack List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 12:33 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Wed, 20 Aug 2014 12:32:37 +0530, > Vinod Koul wrote: >> >> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 07:48:33AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: >> > === >> > >> > Audio Miniconf 2014 Topics >> > >> > - ASoC componentization (Lars) >> > >> > - Dynamic FW (Vinod) >> > Me and Liam will try to send RFCs before the conference. At least on >> > my side thats next todo after current mrfld driver is done. >> > >> > We have working code atm. For the folks who want to look at early >> > state of affairs, here are the trees: >> > Kernel: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vkoul/sound.git dfw-3.15 >> > Usermode: git://git.infradead.org/users/vkoul/dynamic_fw.git >> > >> > - Effect API (yet again) (Vinod) >> > >> > - More DSP support esp on PCM side (Vinod) >> > >> > - Rewinding in ALSA PCM plugins (Alexander) >> > >> > - Resampler quality evaluation for PulseAudio (Alexander) >> > >> > - Testing / QA (Takashi) >> > How people do test? Can we have some automation? >> > (IIRC, openSUSE has some automatic audio test running on VM, but I >> > forgot the details...) >> I would be interested in this as well, some test framework for auto regression >> checks would be great. >> >> I think Mark would be at KS and can update if we can leverage something for >> kselftest stuff being discussed there > > Yep, let's see :) > >> > - ABI/API documentation (Takashi) >> > We're not good at this at all, obviously. Let's define the priority >> > to start working on. >> I think ASoC has grown a lot with DPCM etc making it very dynamic atm. So >> yes it will help to add more >> >> > - Control names (Takashi) >> > It's wild west for now, everyone picks up a random funky name. >> yes, I think the current control names were too HDA specific. > > Actually, the current names are based on hardware in era before > HD-audio. Even HD-audio doesn't fit fully with the current rule. > >> With DSP and >> audio hub proliferation on SoCs/Codecs revisiting this would certainly be >> great. Like how do I specify volume control for gain before a mixer, or gain >> in capture BE which is different from the one on capture FE. >> >> > >> > - Code removals (Takashi) >> > There have been actions to remove the codes for old hardware >> > recently. Which is acceptable? Feature removals, too? >> >> Configuration convergence: >> >From the OS side, we have Desktop OSes relying on PA, Chrome using CRAS, >> Android using flinger. With DSPs and tons of configuration it doesn't bode >> well to have multiple configuration for same stuff for the sound cards. Can >> we talk about unifying the configuration at least. Sure OSes will have their >> own ways to use, but from ALSA can we standardize configurations which >> can be reused across. > > I thought UCM was targeted to this, but not widely used as expected? > >> And lastly, our users :) >> Ask from PA, Android, ChomesOS folks?? > > Yeah. Let's throw a call for topic to relevant MLs when the schedule > and location is finalized. I'll be there and can talk about ChromeOS UCM usage. I'm giving a talk with an overview of ChromeOS's audio system at ELC on Tuesday at 12:15, but aside from that I'll attend the whole day. > > > Takashi > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-devel mailing list > Alsa-devel@alsa-project.org > http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel