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Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 19:00:36 +0100
From: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@denise.shiny.it>
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Subject: Re: Byte order in sound drivers
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> >It depends on the HW you have. Most recent machines don't do HW
> >byteswap, and so accept only big-endian samples. The way this is
> >implemented in our driver currently is a bit weird though, the
> >setformat ioctl won't fail when trying to set an LE format, but
> >it will set the equivalent BE format. So the application is
> >expected to read back the format to figure out what had to be
> >done.

Same thing with some SoundBlasters. That's why there is a mess with
audio andianess.


Bye.


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