Well, as some of you already know, Canonical is currently working on an Ubuntu phone product. Part of that is a well working audio stack. In short, we're trying to build something where we can run as much of standard Ubuntu as possible and as little of Android as possible, without having to rewrite a lot of hardware specific stuff. That's at least how I understand it. :-) So, my plan is to start building something really soon. My draft plan looks like: - For PCM streaming, I'll try to use native ALSA, i e, PulseAudio, alsa-lib, kernel, just as on the desktop. This is for best performance, and also because it's the nicest thing to do for non-PA sound servers and applications (e g JACK). - For setting up the mixer, I'll try to talk to the Android HAL layer. Mixer controls vary a lot between hardware, so making a bridge to Android here would likely save us work in the long run. (This is the most uncertain part.) - For jack detection, in Android this is done through sysfs, and not through the Android HAL. Thus I'll need to write code in PulseAudio to listen to these uevents/sysfs changes. So, I'm mostly posting this to see if you have better ideas, if there are things I should think about before or during the implementation of this code, if somebody has code that already does this hidden in his/her closet, etc. Also, I'm guessing that there wouldn't be any larger objections for upstreaming this either - after all, if we are open to supporting everything from Solaris to Win32, an Linux/Android hybrid should be okay too, right? :-) -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. https://launchpad.net/~diwic
