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From: Edgar Toernig <froese@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 03:14:21 +0000
Subject: Re: [OT] ALSA userspace API complexity
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To: Hannu Savolainen <hannu@opensound.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>, linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>

Hannu Savolainen wrote:
>
> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> >
> > - Split of channels to concurrent accesses
>
> Could you be more specific with the above isues?

As I understand it: instead of providing one device with 5.1 capabilities
provide one device with 3 concurrent stereo users.  Reading the datasheet
of my AC'97 decoder (a cheap ALC650 connected to an ATIIXP) there is hard-
ware that supports this[1].

Sure, Alsa can do all of this and more in software - somehow ...

Ciao, ET.

[1] Unless the ATIIXP has some limitations - there are no docs 
    available :-(