Boomer isnt OSS and it isnt pulse. I havent worked on it in ages but then I sort of assumed nobody was actually doing interesting things with audio on illumos or Solaris.
I partly suspect that some of the systems fare poorly with the timer driven audio instead of using the on-chip isochronous interrupts. The timer driven stuff was an innovation intended to facilitate moving audio streams between different devices (especially SunRay stream mobility) and also to make writing audio device drivers simpler. (No custom device interrupt handling needed.) I know that this approach screwed up VMware as their audio emulation actually depends on "using" the interrupts and cannot run freely without them. I thought I fixed that. If folks have other audio issues I can perhaps try to look at it but I would need solid problem reports and ideally access to some of the audio devices that are affected. (I know USB audio support is a mess but that was always the case even before boomer.) The current state of illumos audio may not be perfect but it is far better than pre boomer days. (Recall that pre boomer the stack was dev audio based and worked with few open source apps. It was a Sun specific streams api. Boomer still supports that legacy api btw but also supports OSS apis.) - Garrett On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 3:14 AM Udo Grabowski (IMK) <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14/09/2017 12:04, Nikola M wrote: > > On 09/13/17 10:01 PM, Peter Tribble wrote: > >> In my OpenSolaris t-shirt collection, I have one with the slogan: > >> > >> "Innovation happens everywhere" > > > > So you want us to dream? :) > > > > - Would like to have playing sound just don't suck on illumos, kracking, > > stopping, pausing, really don't care if it about boomer or pulseaudio or > vlc or > > driver or firefox, or inability for user processes to have higher > priority - > > just make the sound work without such awful problems. That would really > be a > > breakthrough for me. > > > > pull this pulse/alsa/boomer/whatever sh.. out and go back to plain OSS - > that > used to work flawlessly. We don't need everything that Linux fanboys > believe > to be good (its usually not) just because its new. > > > ... > > > > - After finally implementing OpenCL, AMD graphics drivers, have GPU > processing > > power shared across zones and applications with speed throttling. Have > also > > PCI-e-Passthrough for VMs and distributed OpenCL framework running at > the same > > time. > > > > That depends on the vendor, NVIDIA did not compile CL into their > solaris x86 drivers, only into the Linux ones, so no luck there. > > -- > Dr.Udo Grabowski Inst.f.Meteorology & Climate Research IMK-ASF-SAT > http://www.imk-asf.kit.edu/english/sat.php > KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology http://www.kit.edu > Postfach 3640,76021 Karlsruhe,Germany T:(+49)721 608-26026 F:-926026 > ------------------------------------------ illumos-discuss Archives: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/discussions/T83f198c8597cf8e3-M6fee86950104115ea28f8367 Powered by Topicbox: https://topicbox.com
