[maemo-developers] ALSA sound driver for Nokia 770 and DSP programming

[From: Siarhei Siamashka]

On Friday 26 September 2008, Robert Schuster wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Siarhei Siamashka schrieb:
> > Recently I have been trying to make it running and seems like we have a
> > very good chance to have it working nicely. It is also interesting, that
> > the linux-omap guys seem to be developing a new driver [3] for AIC23
> > which may eventually become a better alternative.
>
> Very nice!
>
> I will try your patch in mamona which IMO provides the most easy way to
> test those things out. 

That's great, feedback is very much welcome. Though bugreports can wait until
I roll out the next revision of the patch ;)

> Mamona is based on OpenEmbedded and every other 
> distribution made from it bases its sound core on ALSA not gstreamer ...

Somehow I also like this approach better ...

> It is good that a new driver is in development, however I have doubts
> that we will be able to run 2.6.27+ on the N770 soon ;).

Sure, upgrading the kernel may end up in fixing one problem, but introducing a
lot more of them instead :) But we could try to backport the new driver to
2.6.16 once it is ready.

> Is the AIC23 also in the N8x0 devices?

In addition to the information already provided by Simon, I can recommend to
search linux-omap and alsa-devel mailing lists.

-- 
Best regards,
Siarhei Siamashka