What could I do to assist in creating a human-readable mixer table for
my hardware?  A short tutorial and/or pointers to other references
would be appreciated.

Often there are sources of information, such as linux "codec dumps"
(from their procfs) which show  groups of pin configurations.  I can
sometimes see how these are represented in the structures you use,
other times I don't.

ALSA often has some useful (?) information as well in their codec
"patches".  IIRC,  FreeBSD's driver now uses a parser for most things,
so it's not as helpful.

Thanks for all your work on this,

--Blair

P.S. Insofar as mmap() is concerned, I would be satisfied with
completely "hard-wired" parameters.
I can teach applications about that.  It would just be very nice to be
able to mmap() a buffer with my hardware, as I would like to start
doing audio work and maybe porting some applications.


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