[linux-audio-dev] Happy about MADI

[Steve Harris]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:46:38 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> >Your mention of "yamaha's coming linux efforts" interests me strangly ;)
> >Care to share anything?
> 
> they announced last month that next year or soon after, they would be
> using embedded linux in just about all their consumer keyboards and
> some other products. it was mentioned here on LAD as well as
> elsewhere. 

Yes, of course, I forgot.
 
> >Granted the connection mangement part of mLAN is dubious, I've not been
> >able to read the specs (for obvious reasons). When I spoke before I was
> >thinking more of A+M over IEEE-1394, which the linux kernel allready
> >supports to some extent, not mLAN as a whole. 
> 
> right, but this is more or less useless by itself, as i understand it,
> because nobody knows whether to connect to the datastream(s) or
> not. sending a stream from A to B involves telling B to listen to A by
> hand, or something like that.

Yes, iso 1394 works a bit like IP multicast from what I remeber.

- Steve