>-----Original Message----- >From: alsa-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:alsa-devel-bounces@alsa- >project.org] On Behalf Of Mark Brown >Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 4:02 PM >To: Koul, Vinod >Cc: alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC 0/13] Intel SST drivers > >On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 11:36:03AM +0530, Koul, Vinod wrote: > >> There are 2 drivers involved. One is for the audio DSP engine that can >> decode and do audio processing and one is for the ALSA sound card >> driver with support for three different sound cards that are supported >> on the platform. > >Looking at this I'm wondering how general purpose the DSP on these parts >is. This sort of integrated DSP is fairly common in modern embedded >CPUs but normally the DSP is exposed in a more general fashion, allowing >the DSP to be used for non-audio purposes as well which means that the >DSP management code tends to live outside the sound tree. > >Given what you're saying about Intel-provided firmwares it is possible >that while the hardware is capable of general purpose use you're not >exposing sufficient information for people to actually write their own >firmware in which case that's less of an issue and the situation is >closer to that with things like WiFi cards but I thought it was better t >ask. The DSP is Low power audio engine and not a general purpose DSP. The DSP is optimized for Audio decode/encode offload and rendering. Yes we are thinking of situation closer to WiFi cards Thanks, Harsha _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
