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

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

On 02.12.2019 14:55, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 02:30:44PM +0100, Anton Yakovlev wrote:
> > On 28.11.2019 13:19, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
> All the Linux based systems split the data paths, and at the
> hardware level unless you're using a message based system (which
> is basically just software anyway) you need a different interface
> as you can't push data through the system at a constant rate
> which is a central assumption for PCM audio.

Are we going to design separated specs for different audio features? It seems
a little bit of overkill.


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