On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Jaroslaw Sobierski wrote:
> Still, don't we already *have* a feeding thread for the sound card? I mean
> it doesn't just grab the memory buffer all by itself whenever it wants?
Nope. The idea for the dmix plugin is that we share the DMA ring buffer
with more threads (processes). There is no "master" thread which operates
exclusively with the DMA buffer.
Jaroslav
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Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SuSE Labs
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