From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: Re: PV Audio GSoC Project Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 10:00:16 -0400 Message-ID: <20110505140016.GC4386@dumpdata.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: James Harper Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, George Boutsioukis List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 10:36:16PM +1000, James Harper wrote: > > > > Hello, my name is George Boutsioukis and I'm a student at the > > Aristotle University in Greece. I submitted a GSoC proposal for > > implementing Paravirtualized Audio to Xen and this summer I will be > > working on this under the mentorship of Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk. This > > will be either a split-driver with an ALSA interface to the guest or > > an interdomain communication layer for PulseAudio; we are currently > > weighing these two options, but the latter looks better right now. > > > > This is a very brief description of the project, but if anyone is > > interested in getting more details about this feel free to ask. Keep > > in mind though that we are still at a very early stage. > > > > Any comments or suggestions regarding this project are more than > > welcome of course. > > > > Is windows compatibility part of the scope of your project? I don't mean > a windows implementation, just making sure that the interface you > develop isn't going to painful to interface to Windows at some future Are there any documents on what the audio subsystem is and expects in Windows? > time. I find some frustrations in the existing interfaces (block, > network) in that they were written with Linux in mind and can be a > little painful to interface to Linux. > > James > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel