>I'm not arguing, and I can see that this is a very valid point of view >(kernel as a hardware abstraction layer, supporting only the facilities >the hardware does, and thus avoiding bloating with creaping featureism). > But the alternative view would be that the kernel's sound interface is >there to play sound, regardless of byte order, and as we all know most >of the world has got ints the wrong way around, so it would be splendid >if the kernel could sort things out for us. Obviously this isn't going >to fix the problem of asking for native sending the opposite or vice >versa, but how difficult is it just to byte-reverse things?
It's a lot easier to do in userland ;) The sound is DMA'ed directly to the sound chip, the kernel don't touch the samples, at least not in 16 bits mode. >I'm saying this because my next job will have to be building libarts >from source and then trying to fix it. I would rather make a smaller >change to the kernel module to provide both endianess, but it seems you >don't like that. Neither do Linus ;) Ben.
