On Thursday 25 September 2008, Felipe Contreras wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:07 PM, Siarhei Siamashka [...] > > Now regarding why we may want it. Once if we get a good, low latency, > > fully functional and reliable ALSA sound driver running on ARM, it gives > > maemo community a nice possibility to scrap all the proprietary DSP > > binaries. This provides us with a new and shiny 252MHz C55x DSP core > > ready to be used by something else :) > > > > Free linux DSP toolchain from TI [4] supports generation of both DSP > > kernel and DSP tasks for OMAP1 based devices which is sufficient for DSP > > development. The toolchain license was supposed to permit open source > > development (with noncommercial restriction), though the license text > > itself is a bit questionable [5]. > > > > With DSP avalable for use and having no need to spend efforts on ensuring > > compatibility and peaceful coexistence with proprietary binary codecs > > (free and proprietary code does not mix well), it should be possible to > > turn Nokia 770 into quite a powerful media player. > > Great stuff! > > Do you plan to use the dsp-gateway or dsp-bridge?
Now as you mentioned that, it indeed makes sense to consider other alternatives if they exist. Do you have any links to the information about dspgateway vs. dspbridge comparison (features/performance/reliability)? Using dspgateway has a clear advantage that it is already included in the kernel. And dspgateway is more or less ok, though patching it a bit in order to improve performance will be required. -- Best regards, Siarhei Siamashka _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
