From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, Kamil Rytarowski <n54@gmx.com>
Cc: "Brad Smith" <brad@comstyle.com>,
"Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
"Kamil Rytarowski" <kamil@netbsd.org>,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>,
"QEMU Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] [RfC] audio: probe audio drivers by default
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 07:51:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cdca16ff-7c3e-b525-86ee-76451c1b3323@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190124063851.zhjlx5oigvri4r64@sirius.home.kraxel.org>
On 2019-01-24 07:38, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
[...]
> I'm not going to join the sndio vs. pulse discussion.
>
> But from a maintenance point of view it sucks big time to have a bunch
> of ways to play sound, and everybody uses a different one so you have to
> maintain a backend for each of those methods.
>
> Maybe we should outsource that problem. Write a gstreamer backend, then
> delete oss/alsa/sdl/pulse/whatever backends and let gstreamer handle
> that mess ...
Well, before writing a gstreamer backend, you could also say that we
only support SDL in QEMU, since SDL is also a wrapper around all the
other possible sound backends...
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-24 6:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-23 8:00 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] audio: rework driver probing Gerd Hoffmann
2019-01-23 8:00 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] audio: use pkg-config Gerd Hoffmann
2019-01-23 8:30 ` Thomas Huth
2019-01-23 8:00 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] audio: allow optional audio drivers Gerd Hoffmann
2019-01-23 8:00 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] audio: use try-sdl and try-pa for openbsd Gerd Hoffmann
2019-01-23 8:00 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] [RfC] audio: probe audio drivers by default Gerd Hoffmann
2019-01-23 8:27 ` Thomas Huth
2019-01-23 9:36 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-01-23 9:50 ` Thomas Huth
2019-01-23 10:12 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-01-23 10:36 ` Kamil Rytarowski
2019-01-23 10:59 ` Peter Maydell
2019-01-23 11:10 ` Kamil Rytarowski
2019-01-23 11:16 ` Peter Maydell
2019-01-23 11:30 ` Kamil Rytarowski
2019-01-23 12:20 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-01-23 12:45 ` Kamil Rytarowski
2019-01-23 13:59 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-01-23 14:45 ` Kamil Rytarowski
2019-01-23 14:54 ` Brad Smith
2019-01-23 15:12 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-01-23 15:20 ` Kamil Rytarowski
2019-01-24 6:38 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-01-24 6:51 ` Thomas Huth [this message]
2019-01-24 10:06 ` Kamil Rytarowski
2019-01-23 10:16 ` Kamil Rytarowski
2019-01-23 10:24 ` Gerd Hoffmann
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