On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 09:27:01PM -0500, Charles M. Hannum wrote:
> 
> I *know* I've been over this before, but...
> 
> > Will using trigger become mandatory?
> >
> > [description of board]
> 
> Yes.
> 
> This is simply not an issue.  If you have to upload the data in
> blocks, then you can always write a function that's called from both
> the trigger and interrupt routines (analogous to the old `start'
> routine).  There's no reason for this division to be in the interface.
> (And in fact, uploading the next block from a callback, as was
> previously done, significantly increases the gap between blocks, which
> on some hardware caused a FIFO underrun and an audible glitch.)
> 
> > What should 44100-only hardware do?
> 
> If the hardware simply can't support the `standard' default settings,
> that's fine.  But some of the drivers were just being lame.
> 
> > MMAP even for non-DMA drivers?
> 
> Yes.  Even for hardware that doesn't do DMA, it's still faster to
> avoid the extra copying to get the data into the ring buffer.
> 
> And it's quite trivial to support.

It would help if you would update audio(9).

	-is