[linux-audio-dev] Echo Darla/Gina/Layla/... on Linux

[Brad Arant]

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From: linux-audio-dev-admin at music.columbia.edu
[mailto:linux-audio-dev-admin at music.columbia.edu]On Behalf Of Ranjit
Singh
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 7:57 AM
To: linux-audio-dev at music.columbia.edu
Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Echo Darla/Gina/Layla/... on Linux


>>> We're effectively talking about a driver for the Motorola DSP
>>> onboard (I can't remember what the no is.)

>>No, that stuff is "secret". The microcode is available only as raw
>>binaries, and the driver's job is to talk to the microcode; not the
>>hardware directly. So, we're talking about Linux kernel space only;
>>no DSP code.

>When you say "available as binaries" I take it that it's still running on
>board the card's ROM? (ie microcode implemented within the card, not the
>host.)

My only interest is in th interface components useful in making a device
driver.