[linux-audio-user] hardware mixing - what it _actually_ is?

[Lee Revell]

On 1/22/07, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/22/07, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
> <SNIP>
> >
> > Basically nothing supports hardware mixing these days except the
> > emu10k1 devices and some VIA onboard chipsets, because the hardware is
> > designed around Windows which does software mixing in the kernel.
> >
>
> RME HDSP series?

I don't have the hardware to check, but judging from the driver code
this device does not support hardware mixing - the call to
snd_pcm_new() in snd_hdsp_create_pcm() from hdsp.c specifies 1
playback and 1 capture substream.

Lee