Re: User-space ALSA driver?

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:30:37 +0100,
Fredrik Tolf wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 16:21 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Mon, 14 Mar 2005 03:00:24 +0100,
> > Fredrik Tolf wrote:
> > > (Please CC me, I'm not on the list)
> Again, please.
> > > 
> > > I've been googling around a bit for a user-space ALSA driver (meaning an
> > > ALSA driver that allows a user-space program to act as the "hardware"),
> > > but I've been unable to find one.
> > > 
> > > It seems strange to me that no such driver would exist. Does anyone on
> > > the list know of any such driver? I was just about to start writing one
> > > myself, but I thought I'd better check with the list first, just in case
> > > I missed it.
> > 
> > Check alsa-plugins CVS repository.  It includes JACK and OSS
> > "user-space" drivers.  Also, the bluez CVS includes the ALSA plugin,
> > too.
> 
> Thanks, but that wasn't really what I wanted. I really do want a kernel
> driver that plugs back to user-space. I realize that the preferred way
> to do ALSA userspace drivers is to make a libasound plugin, but without
> a kernel driver, I can't get OSS emulation (right?).

You can use aoss wrapper.

> Should I take your reply as an indication that I'll have to write that
> driver myself?

If you want :)


Takashi


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