20 Mar
2003
20 Mar
'03
12:29 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: linux-audio-dev-admin(a)music.columbia.edu
[mailto:linux-audio-dev-admin@music.columbia.edu]On Behalf Of Ranjit
Singh
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 7:57 AM
To: linux-audio-dev(a)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.