> Pavel Machek wrote:
> > I've driver which essentially turns lucents winmodem into soundcard.
>
> I'll add that it doesn't support all Lucent winmodems yet -- just
> the Toshiba laptop ones and any compatibles.
>
> But soon it will support every Lucent winmodem we know about.
>
> > Now, question is where should it go. That winmodem uses interrupts so
> > little that it can be nicely done using polling+userspace with zero
> > performance lost. Still it is device driver. Should it go into kernel?
> > [Well, drivers/sound/modem would be cool :-)]
>
> I suppose it is a sort of sound device, with an interesting mixer. I
> want to make sure we have a suitable interface to the DSPs too at I
> intend to use them.
>
> > Then, there's v34 stack. It is not written yet, but it will eventually
> > get written. It needs sort of realtime guarantees. Should it go into
> > kernel?
>
> I don't think so. Ingo's low latency patch should give us all the
> guarantee we need.
Why do I keep having dreams of a 29$ VOIP interface card here?
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