Re: [LAU] Phonic Helix Board 24 on Fedora

Fons Adriaensen wrote: Indeed, that's the one. Unfortunately I didn't get around implementing FFADO support for it yet. Mostly due to lack of time. And because it does lack some features we need, which don't seem to be high on the priority list (e.g. support for multiple streams). Besides, the authors claim backward compatibility at the library level, i.e. libraw1394 users like FFADO shouldn't have to care. But shifting it all to the 1394 guys is not completely fair. I do admit that we are not very noisy towards them. I guess that once more distro's start using the new stack that will change. But almost a year has passed since LAC'08 and my views on the topic have evolved a bit. While from a theoretical perspective it should be possible to implement FFADO in userspace, there are some issues that make life a bit harder than it should be. And if it were only software things I could think about fixing them. But there are also some hardware-level issues that need workarounds that can't be done in userspace. If you want more details, I suggest we discuss that at the entrance of some obscure venue in Parma ;). The bottom line is that I am planning to, using the current FFADO codebase as a reference, port the streaming code to the kernel, with a direct interface to ALSA. That should bring a performance improvement too. And it will also lighten the burden of supporting the zillion audio API's Linux developers seem to need. Greets, Pieter