Re: [Jack-Devel] About ALSA drivers for Firewire sound devices

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Date	Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:24:02 +1030
From	Jonathan Woithe <[hidden] at just42 dot net>
To	Chris Goddard <[hidden] at oofus dot co dot uk>
Cc	[hidden] at lists dot jackaudio dot org
In-Reply-To	Chris Goddard Re: [Jack-Devel] About ALSA drivers for Firewire sound devices

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:39:48PM +0000, Chris Goddard wrote:
> So does that distil down to : for full support of a device ALSA and FFADO
> will exist together.  ALSA achieving the streaming and then FFADO looking
> after the user side of things. ie working together.

Yes, this is the current expectation.

> Or could it be that a user could still make a decision to use either FFADO
> or ALSA ?

The transition period will be a bit messy for obvious reasons.  Even during
this time though it should settle down quite quickly once the existing ALSA
driver starts propagating into machines:
 - if a device is supported by the ALSA drivers, use that
 - otherwise use FFADO

There will also be an inevitable lag with the new drivers getting out to
people since most use distribution kernels, so I expect that testing of the
new kernel code will pick up once suitable kernels make their way into
distribution releases.

Regards
  jonathan

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