This is not the first time for this idea. There are one or two people working on
it. The idea that seems to be the best is an ethernet connected AI because this
seems to be the digital interface that stays around and is best supported. The
idea is to use an arm based board with a netjack master and built in audio IF. The
only project I know of is to at first provide stereo i/o as a proof of concept.


Interesting, I didn't know this. Can you send a link to it?

http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2011-October/081520.html
is the start I think... Though it may have surfaced since then too.

It seems to me that at some point the same project came back in either LAU or LAD but the topic got changed.