Hi Clemens, On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Clemens Ladisch <clemens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Felipe Tonello wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Clemens Ladisch <clemens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Felipe Tonello wrote: >>>> I am planning to start the support of MIDI BLE profile[1]. >>>> >>>> I suggest two main goals: >>>> * To be transparent to applications, i.e., use rawmidi and sequencer >>>> ALSA interfaces to interact. >>>> * To support peripheral and central BLE roles. >>>> >>>> My question is: what is the best way possible of doing it? >>> >>> Just write a (user-space) sequencer client. >> >> But this will limit to seq interface only. It will not be available >> via rawmidi interface, right? > > Yes. And why would this be a problem? None besides the obvious fact that rawmidi interface will be out. > >>>> They all have the problem of context switching between bluez plugin >>>> and alsa midi driver. >>> >>> Why would context switches be a problem? >> >> It is just too much travelling around. > > It hasn't been a problem with any other MIDI application. It can be for MIDI Multidimensional Polyphonic Expression (MPE)[1] . [1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-26r0pVtVBrZHM6VGA05hpF-ij5xT6aaXY9BfDzyTx8/edit Felipe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
