[linux-audio-dev] Linux DSP Hardware?

[Clemens Ladisch]

jipi wrote:
> currently, all signal processing algos are being done in software for
> Linux Audio.
> are there any hardware accelerated support for audio hardware when doing
> these sort of algos?

If you bend the definition of "hardware accelerated" enough, SIMD
extensions like MMX/SSE... would qualify. :)

> what if we want to experiment with h/w dsp?

The DSP on emu10k1 cards is the only one supported in Linux.

> (e.g. the 1820m from creative professional aka emu)

I don't know how similar that DSP is to the one on Creative's game
("consumer") cards, but it probably is somewhat related.  But Creative
doesn't release documentation, so we can forget it.


Clemens