On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 02:27:42PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
I don't have bandwidth to contribute much in this discussion right now, at least not to lead it, so I'm happy to let others do so, but I'm happy to provide feedback from my own experience as proposals are made.
Unfortunately, I'm in the same boat. :-( However, I'll be at UDS in 2 weeks time, and I know audio is a big concern for the Ubuntu folks. A bunch of the ARM vendors will be there too. I'll schedule a session to talk about audio bindings and hopefully that way make some headway on defining a binding that makes sense and is actually useful.
Hrm, the only issue that's been raised upstream is multi-CODEC (there are one or two other things that boil down to multi-CODEC, but nothing else I'm aware of). If you schedule something please announce it here, I believe that UDS generally has arrangements for remote participation.
Note that most of the complexity explosion you'll see here is visible in things like phones more than the sort of devices you'd run Ubuntu on currently and much of it isn't really visible to a lot of the CPU vendors at all since it's generally all handled off the CPU.