Re: [virtio-dev] [PATCH] snd: Add virtio sound device specification

[Anton Yakovlev <anton.yakovlev@opensynergy.com>]

On 28.11.2019 13:19, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 10:37:17AM +0100, Christophe de Dinechin wrote:
>
> > If Iâm talking to a hardware decoder, then a compressed format makes sense
> > (there is no point in decompressing in software if the deviceâs very purpose
> > is to do it in hardware). But then, maybe it supports one format but not another.
>
> If you're talking about compressed as opposed to PCM audio here (you say
> decompression) I think you probably want a different spec there, the
> flow control stuff is quite different and you often need a lot more
> configuration for compressed formats.

Usually all such kind of things are tight together in one audio subsystem and
in one audio driver. I don't think it has a sense to separate all kind of 
streams into different specs.


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