HelloI thought all ham radio was half duplex. i.e. You listen and decode, and then transmit if needed. i did not think the listen and transmit worked at the same time.
I work at "hfkernel" by Tom Sailer, a program for pactor/rtty (soundcard ham radio digimodes). It seems complicated, because it uses realtime scheduling, select(), mmap(), and runs in 3 threads. It was made in 1996 for OSS; I am trying to get it running with ALSA.
It is unique thing because it can do Pactor without the expensive PTC (something like a radio modem), may be of interest for many hams outside Europe /USA.
I and friends see messages like
" 512 fragments passed since last wakeup", in endless loop, leading to crashes, seems to be xruns, not able to ctrl-alt-del, have to switch off machine.
.
What do You think, how can ALSA support it, or Do I have to rewrite it for ALSA.
I tried already with no success to say "Direct" and "non-block" in all combinations to /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p etc... If to rewrite, what function / ioctl matches
SNDCTL_DSP_GETISPACE...SNDCTL_DSP_GETOSPACE...
" ioctl(fd_audio, SNDCTL_DSP_GETIPTR, &cinfo) "
and " ioctl(fd_audio, SNDCTL_DSP_GETOPTR, &cinfo) " ?
The prog is at https//projects.sourceforge.net/hfterm. Here is one of the important functions out of l1/user/oss.c my prog: Thanks for Your ideas!
So, in theory, one could have 2 threads.
One receiving audio data, one decoding it, and if the decoder needs to transmit anything it stops the receiving thread, and starts a transmit thread. There is enough time to close and then open the sound device between receive and transmit, so the sound card should never have to work in full duplex mode.
Cheers James
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