From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 23:21:32 -0600 Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.1p4 : dmasound ed21- Pismo byte-swap From: Takashi Oe To: Iain Sandoe , Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20010119040949.10F902F045@apollo.valhalla.net> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On 1/18/01 10:11 PM, Iain Sandoe wrote: > - but if you do a quick check back over this list you will find that quite a > few 'popular' (including major ones like xmms + its plug-ins, arts, ecasound > etc.) one have been mentioned. (even sox produces LE raw output by default > - yuck!). Hmm, odd. I've used all mentioned here except "arts" which I have never used on a nubus mac here. The nubus version of awacs doesn't have h/w byte swapping. So, I believe those apps worked at one point or fixes exist already. > > Yes, the broken ones could/should all be fixed* (some have BTW) - any > volunteers? (I could *very* easily make the driver support hardware-only > formats). > >> I don't there are so many linux audio apps to begin with. > > sadly, true - but there are more apps that _use_ audio - like kde - which > _is_ (I am told) broken for pismo (I don't have one) without LE data support > and, of course, games. You know, some apps are so broken that they do the byte swapping themselves so as to feed LE data, in which case the CPU will be doing double byte swapping on PISMO and possibly others. No thanks. > I guess sometimes it's nice to "keep end users happy" tho' :-) True, but we had no audio app working (without a patch or two) some years ago, and I believe we are making progress. Takashi Oe ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/