Hey, On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 18:58, Alan Cox wrote: > > 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. That's not so hard. The kernel API tells me the format, I decode in userspace. I don't need a lib to do that for me transparently. Ronald -- Ronald Bultje <rbultje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
