[LAU] can jackd or ardour be forced to use interleaved mode?

Fons Adriaensen fons at linuxaudio.org
Sat May 15 15:24:37 CEST 2021


On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 06:49:28AM -0600, Paul Davis wrote:

> Also, at that time, ALSA didn't yet properly support the mmap'ed mode ...
> it was under development but not finished (as evidenced by the way it could
> not handle non-interleaved devices like the RME digi series.

That's another thing that puzzles me...

At the time audio cards like the RMEs would be sitting on a PCI bus,
and the mmap area could/would be actual hardware buffers.
So then, mmapped mode would be the 'natural' way, with read()/write()
being implemented on top of it. But apparently it was the other way
around...

Ciao,

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FA




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