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From: Anthony Sorace <anothy@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] audio standards -- too many to choose from
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:15:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <509071940908112215r10ec566eq5b622fcbfc1b579f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <414BCD8C-1138-4A9E-AF40-D4022A2FA223@sun.com>

i think russ has it exactly right: keep the kernel driver as simple as
is practical, do whatever else you want in user space. for /dev/audio,
i wouldn't suggest anything beyond plan 9's audio(3) as is. i'd
suggest some cleanup of the surround (kill /dev/volume, rationalize
/dev/audioctl), but the fundamentals are right.

having a user mode fs on top of that to do easy, standardized format
conversion would be pretty neat, and i wonder if it could be provided
in a backwards-compatible way without too many contortions. if we're
only being additive...

maybe not, though. maybe just keep the names clear and avoid the
compatibility trap all together. i don't exactly follow erik's upas/fs
analogy, but i do think a fs of sorts is very interesting. i think
that approach also lends itself well to mixers, which is a related set
of questions. i tend to think of it more analogous to /net than
upas/fs. "cat whatever > /mnt/mixer/new"?



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-12  5:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-12  1:08 Tim Newsham
2009-08-12  1:14 ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-12  1:31   ` Tim Newsham
2009-08-12  1:45     ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-12  2:07       ` Tim Newsham
2009-08-12  3:14         ` ron minnich
2009-08-12  3:24           ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-12  4:49             ` Charles Forsyth
2009-08-12  4:24           ` Russ Cox
2009-08-12  4:35             ` Charles Forsyth
2009-08-12 15:12               ` Russ Cox
2009-08-12  4:36             ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-08-12 15:36               ` hiro
2009-08-14  2:45                 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-08-14 13:56                   ` hiro
2009-08-12  5:15             ` Tim Newsham
2009-08-12  5:39               ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-08-12  8:28                 ` Tim Newsham
2009-08-12  9:30                   ` Steve Simon
2009-08-13  2:16                   ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-08-13  3:17                     ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-13 22:48                     ` James Tomaschke
2009-08-13 22:52                       ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-13 23:19                         ` Christopher Nielsen
2009-08-13 23:47                         ` James Tomaschke
2009-08-14  0:00                           ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-14  1:13                             ` James Tomaschke
2009-08-14  1:41                               ` Anthony Sorace
2009-08-14  2:30                                 ` James Tomaschke
2009-08-14  1:42                               ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-08-14  1:51                                 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-08-14  2:22                                 ` James Tomaschke
2009-08-14  3:16                                   ` Charles Forsyth
2009-08-14  3:42                                     ` James Tomaschke
2009-08-14  7:04                                       ` Charles Forsyth
2009-08-14 20:43                                         ` James Tomaschke
2009-08-15  9:26                                           ` Steve Simon
2009-08-14 13:16                                     ` matt
2009-08-14  4:51                                   ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-08-14  5:01                                     ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-08-14  5:56                                       ` James Tomaschke
2009-08-19  9:58                                         ` matt
2009-08-14  5:18                                     ` James Tomaschke
2009-08-14 14:39                                       ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-08-14  9:16                                   ` Paul Donnelly
2009-08-14 13:47                                     ` hiro
2009-08-14 20:03                         ` Tim Newsham
2009-08-14 21:24                   ` sqweek
2009-08-14 21:54                     ` Skip Tavakkolian
2009-08-15 12:23                       ` hiro
2009-08-14 22:05                     ` Bakul Shah
2009-08-12  5:43               ` Anthony Sorace
2009-08-12  5:59                 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-08-12  6:11                   ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-08-12 11:18                   ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-13  2:06                     ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-08-12 22:11             ` James Tomaschke
2009-08-13  7:45             ` Skip Tavakkolian
2009-08-12  4:20         ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-08-12  4:25           ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-12  4:50             ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-08-12  5:10               ` Tim Newsham
2009-08-12  5:25                 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-08-12 15:42                 ` David Leimbach
2009-08-12  5:15               ` Anthony Sorace [this message]
2009-08-13  6:42               ` Skip Tavakkolian
2009-08-13 13:07                 ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-13 13:30                   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2009-08-13 13:31                   ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-08-13 14:31                     ` Anthony Sorace
2009-08-13 14:41                       ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-08-13 17:20                       ` hiro
2009-08-12 15:30             ` hiro
2009-08-12  5:54 ` Lawrence E. Bakst
2009-08-12  6:13   ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-08-12 19:50 ` Tim Newsham
2009-08-12 20:57   ` Bakul Shah
2009-08-13  2:18   ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-08-13  3:46     ` Tim Newsham
2009-08-13 17:00       ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-08-13 19:13         ` Christopher Nielsen
2009-08-15  0:44 erik quanstrom

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