Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal

Kyle Moffett
2006-01-04T20:12:33Z

On Jan 04, 2006, at 09:46, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>> Still would be nice if users of ALSA who have the OSS backwards
>>> compat
>>> enabled would thus also get transparent software mixing for all apps
>>> using the OSS API.
>>> not crucial, that's not what I'm saying, just nice if it would be
>>> possible.
>>
>> Technicall it's trivial to implement the soft-mixing in the kernel.
>> The question is whether it's the right implementation.
>> We have a user-space softmix for ALSA, and aoss wrapper for OSS using
>> it. (I know aoss still has some problems that should be fixed,
>> though.)
>
> Software mixing in the kernel is like FPU ops in the kernel...

Software mixing in the kernel probably _IS_ FPU ops in the kernel.
We already do video mixing (think X) in userspace, I see no reason
why audio should be different.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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