Re: [fluid-dev] Other than OSS or ALSA on Linux ???

[Josh Green]

On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 05:20, Tiemo Krueger - mycable.de wrote:
> Josh Green wrote:
> 
> >I've used this mips CPU myself for Linux projects (actually the AU1100).
> >The audio driver is OSS based.
> >
> But it's not in the OSS part of the Audio Driver Config when configuring
> the kernel?!?! Or are there perhaps different versions??
> We're using 2.4.21 and 2.4.25 from mipsel-linux
> 

A lot of drivers aren't actually listed under the OSS part of the
kernel, but in fact use the OSS API. There aren't really many other
choices except ALSA of course.

>From what Markus said it sounds like there are significant changes that
would need to be made in order to write a FluidSynth integer based port.
I think the original purpose of that task was to see if it had better
performance than using floating point (on x86 based CPUs it doesn't
provide any significant performance improvement, IIRC). So the only
reason to write an integer based port at this point is for embedded
FPU-less devices. This could be a really cool target platform though.
Regards,
        Josh Green