Re: Turning lucent winmodem into soundcard

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 17 Sep 1999 20:07:53 +0200


Alan Cox wrote:
> I don't really want to see V34 in the kernel if at all possible. V34
> isnt that real time. This is a test for the kernel I think. mlock()
> and using the real time scheduling should be enough. If not then Ingo
> and others have a target to polish up the scheduling patch.

Well, my target is that V34 demod will go in user space, possibly with
no real time requirement.

For modulation, it's possible that we could keep the hard stuff in user
space, but with something in the kernel to insert idle frames should the
Tx buffer underflow. I think that's better than dropping the line which
_might_ happen with a cheap modem on the other end. Fabrice says V34
modulation is not that complex. But a few things I've read give me a
feeling that he might not have solved all the problems yet ;-) Things
like frequency precompensation at the Tx end for example...

> The other thing about V34 in user space is you ought to be able to use
> it with any sound card ;)

That is on my todo list :-)

-- Jamie

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