On Sunday 10 March 2002 03.46, Dan Hollis wrote: > On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Ivica Bukvic wrote: > > It is no rocket science to figure out that Alsa is the way to go, > > and I am all for it. But one thing I do not comprehend is why is > > the user-space driver better than the kernel space one? > > It is simply 100,000,000 times more flexible than a kernel space > solution. > > Also, heavy calculations can be done in userspace for e.g. complex > mixing, format, and rate conversions. Kernelspace is the worst > possible place you can ever do that.
YES, right on! Too many drivers doing too much of that is the basic reason why a lowlatency patch was needed in the first place. //David .- M A I A -------------------------------------------------. | Multimedia Application Integration Architecture | | A Free/Open Source Plugin API for Professional Multimedia | `----------------------> http://www.linuxaudiodev.com/maia -' .- David Olofson -------------------------------------------. | Audio Hacker - Open Source Advocate - Singer - Songwriter | `-------------------------------------> http://olofson.net -'
