On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 06:49:28AM -0600, Paul Davis wrote: > Also, at that time, ALSA didn't yet properly support the mmap'ed mode ... > it was under development but not finished (as evidenced by the way it could > not handle non-interleaved devices like the RME digi series. That's another thing that puzzles me... At the time audio cards like the RMEs would be sitting on a PCI bus, and the mmap area could/would be actual hardware buffers. So then, mmapped mode would be the 'natural' way, with read()/write() being implemented on top of it. But apparently it was the other way around... Ciao, -- FA _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user