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From: Olaf Dabrunz <od@suse.de>
To: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: ALSA vs. OSS
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:48:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040120144832.GJ14815@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401201524230.2010@pnote.perex-int.cz>

On 20-Jan-04, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Olaf Dabrunz wrote:
> 
> > > We don't do this in kernel. We implemented the direct stream mixing in our 
> > > library (userspace). If your applications already uses ALSA APIs or if you 
> > > redirect the OSS ioctls to ALSA library (our aoss library), you can enjoy 
> >   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > How can this be done? Just by creating symlinks?
> 
> No. Use aoss script in our alsa-oss package.

Ah, I see.

# objdump -t /usr/lib/libaoss.so.0.0.0

/usr/lib/libaoss.so.0.0.0:     file format elf32-i386

SYMBOL TABLE:
[...]
000062a0 g     F .text	00000088              ioctl
[...]
00006490 g     F .text	0000008f              munmap
[...]
00006bc0 g     F .text	00000857              select
[...]
000063c0 g     F .text	000000cf              mmap
[...]
00006180 g     F .text	00000088              write
[...]
00006210 g     F .text	00000088              read
[...]
00006890 g     F .text	00000325              poll
[...]
00005fd0 g     F .text	000000da              open
[...]
00006330 g     F .text	00000088              fcntl
[...]
000060b0 g     F .text	000000c9              close
[...]

So libaoss.so is a wrapper for all file-related system-calls, I suppose
to catch calls involving /dev/dsp and /dev/audio.

-- 
Olaf Dabrunz (od / odabrunz), SUSE Linux AG, Nürnberg


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-20 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-19 17:18 ALSA vs. OSS Markus Hästbacka
2004-01-19 17:48 ` Steve Youngs
2004-01-19 18:21   ` Travis Morgan
2004-01-20  8:58     ` Gábor Lénárt
2004-01-20  9:46     ` Heinz Ulrich Stille
2004-01-20 13:18       ` Mark Borgerding
2004-01-20 14:03         ` Markus Hästbacka
2004-01-20 14:07           ` Takashi Iwai
2004-01-20 14:17             ` Markus Hästbacka
2004-01-20 14:28               ` Takashi Iwai
2004-01-20 14:37                 ` Markus Hästbacka
2004-01-20 14:41                   ` Takashi Iwai
2004-02-25 22:21                     ` Markus Hästbacka
     [not found]                 ` <20040120170658.GB23351@widomaker.com>
2004-01-20 17:35                   ` Takashi Iwai
2004-01-20 14:08         ` Heinz Ulrich Stille
2004-01-20 15:13         ` Alistair John Strachan
2004-01-20 15:19           ` Jaroslav Kysela
2004-01-22 23:53             ` Zephaniah E. Hull
2004-01-23  8:31               ` Jaroslav Kysela
2004-01-20 19:00       ` Eric Sandall
2004-01-21 11:03         ` Dale Weber
2004-01-21 18:06           ` Mike Fedyk
2004-01-24  8:21     ` Travis Morgan
2004-01-20 19:24   ` Brian McGroarty
2004-01-20 19:46     ` Måns Rullgård
2004-01-19 18:08 ` Raphaël RIGO
2004-01-19 19:42 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2004-01-20 14:24   ` Olaf Dabrunz
2004-01-20 14:44     ` Thomas Dodd
     [not found]     ` <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401201524230.2010@pnote.perex-int.cz>
2004-01-20 14:48       ` Olaf Dabrunz [this message]
2004-01-20 15:06     ` Takashi Iwai
     [not found] <20040119174543.59620.qmail@web40610.mail.yahoo.com>
2004-01-19 18:06 ` Markus Hästbacka
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-21  2:40 Jonathan Boler

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