[LAU] No more PCI!

[Paul Davis]

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Pieter Palmers <pieterp at joow.be> wrote:

> The backends could still be special clients that have a split
> read/process/write execution order.

that's just it - we don't really need "special" clients at all.

> Maybe take into account that the firewire driver will most likely end up to
> be an ALSA driver. And that device aggregation (if not done in jack itself)
> will be done with the relevant ALSA mechanism. So it might be interesting to
> think about supporting this for ALSA devices in general. It might also be
> interesting for USB clients. Or if you have a firewire device that is synced
> with your PCI soundcard.

we already have torben's alsa_in and alsa_out clients which can do
resampling to stay in sync with the master. these would represent a
starting point, except of course that i'm imagining in-process
clients, with and without resampling.