Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 16:13:17 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sound and dma ... Message-ID: <199707181413.QAA17750@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199707181503.IAA05006@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at Jul 18, 97 08:03:18 am
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> Hi, > The problem with eliminating functionality like is that > it will render us uncompatible with the linux or with linux > apps. > > SOUND_PCM_SUBDIVIDE is really use for setting the buffer size and > to provide multiple buffers. > > The sound driver generates N number of buffers based upon the size > of its pool and the the size of a buffer. The intent is eliminate > clicks. There is also buffering done on sound cards such as the right, I was mistaken... at a more careful reading the code seems to generate a number of sub-buffers as you mention, and the 'SUBDIVIDE' ioctl is only of use if one wants to force the driver to split the available buffer space in more pieces than it would do using the normal heuristics. In this view (and especially, now that I understand _how_ it works), I can probably keep the current code. Note however that my idea was _not_ to kill the ioctl, just make it a NOP. Cheers Luigi
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199707181413.QAA17750>