Re: CVS commit: src/share/man/man4

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 05:02:00PM +1100, matthew green wrote:
> > Modified Files:
> > 	src/share/man/man4: hdaudio.4
> >
> > Log Message:
> > Mention that formats with >16-bit precision cannot yet be used
> 
> i'm not near a system to test right now, but when i added
> support for floating point WAVE files to audioplay, i've
> converted from float32 or float64 to signed 32 bit integer,
> and then played the 32 bit values... so this does work, or
> at least, to worked for me with netbsd-9 + audio/play/play.c
> rev 1.59 back in november 2019.
> 
> 
> .mrg.

The MI audio driver converts 32-bit samples back down to 16-bits
before they're output to hdaudio because hdaudio only supports
>16-bit formats that aren't a power of two, and the audio layer
doesn't handle this.

I'll clarify the text.