Re: buggy v4l apps (was: VIDIOCSYNC and bad data)

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• Subject: Re: buggy v4l apps (was: VIDIOCSYNC and bad data)
• From: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 12:58:12 -0400 (EDT)
• In-reply-to: <1060101998.14482.36.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from "Ronald Bultje" at Aws 05, 2003 06:46:39

> The fact that an additional layer is needed to unify different hardware,
> doesn't that mean that ALSA (kernel API) missed the big deal of being a
> kernel API?

ALSA does it in user space, because thats the right answer. To decode
an image into another format I want to use SSE and MMX (not doable in the 
kernel) and I want to tile the processing.

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