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From: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>
To: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk>
Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: static snd_pcm_uframes_t	snd_aicapcm_pcm_pointe
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 09:20:21 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <XFMail.20060228092021.pochini@shiny.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1141083326.9257.5.camel@localhost.localdomain>


On 27-Feb-2006 Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 12:35 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>
>>
>> The pointer callback can be at any time to query the current DMA
>> position, not only from the interrupt handler, e.g. from ioctl.
>>
>>
> What has DMA got to do with it? I am again confused.. I thought it was
> meant to return the current playback position, not the DMA position.

The ring buffer that holds audio data is accessed by your card
via DMA I guess.
.pointer(substream) shall return the position inside the buffer,
in frames, that the card is accessing in this moment. It's not
important whether the card uses DMA or it doesn't.


--
Giuliano.


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  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-28  8:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-24 20:41 static snd_pcm_uframes_t snd_aicapcm_pcm_pointer(snd_pcm_substream_t *substream) Adrian McMenamin
2006-02-26  1:48 ` Lee Revell
2006-02-26 10:55   ` Adrian McMenamin
2006-02-27 11:35     ` Takashi Iwai
2006-02-27 23:35       ` Adrian McMenamin
2006-02-28  8:20         ` Giuliano Pochini [this message]
2006-02-28 10:25         ` Takashi Iwai

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