blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn) writes:

> Hmmm I may be about to put my foot in my mount (nothing new here ;-)
> but I don't know of too many PCI sound cards.  So I think that we will
> need the bounce buffers for some things.

Sounds cards are a good example of where `bounce buffers' are exactly
the wrong thing to do.  It means you can't ever mmap() the sound
buffer.