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Re: Audio - In kernel audio mixing



Hi Thor,
On Mon, 16 May 2016 15:06:47 Michael wrote:
> 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.
I chose 16 bit singed linear as an intermediate format though this is 
arbitrary and can be changed to 32 bits.

Best regards,

Nat

PS: Please check out ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/nat/nextaudio3-kern.diff


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