Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>]

On Jun 25 2007 14:31, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>> It was started in time when most cheap sound cards was without hw mixer.
>> And .. when today you use ALSA on sound card without hw mixer still all 
>> this (past ?) problems are actual.
>
>Huh?  I have no problems with soft mixing...

Diverging from the discussion, how is soft mixing actually done? If it was done
in userspace, it would need shared memory, or a back relay from kernelspace to
userspace (and back again for the final output), otherwise I could not imagine
how all alsa streams came together at one point.


	Jan
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