Re: Audio - In kernel audio mixing

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Hello,

On Sun, 15 May 2016 13:05:13 -0400
Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost> wrote:

> Would this project benefit from the ability to use the floating point
> unit, or vector extensions requiring the FP registers, in the kernel?

That makes me wonder how difficult it would be to coerce the SS20's SX
unit ( think integer vector processor built into the memory controller,
intended for graphics ) into doing the resampling / mixing. Probably
not worth the trouble since it really doesn't like 16bit values.