[alsa-devel] HDMI Multichannel LPCM/RAW Support/Status

I was just curious if there is any planned support for multichannel LPCM/Raw audio for newer HDMI based chipsets. There are several matx boards with HDMI 1.1 and above compliance, which means they should be able to pass 8-channel LPCM audio. Also, in HDMI 1.3 and above, Bit Stream passing is supported, which actually should be easier, bandwidth wise, than LPCM. Multichannel PCM (above 2 channels) was never an issue because SPDIF lacked the bandwidth. After talking with some people in irc it seems as though the # of channels setting in Alsa is only one bit. Thanks.

Dustin