[alsa-devel] alsa-lib support for compress offload

Qais Yousef qais.yousef at imgtec.com
Mon Jan 19 18:23:11 CET 2015


On 01/16/2015 04:50 PM, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
>
> Since there is no allowed processing/reformatting/reshuffling of 
> compressed data, all the plugin system needs to be bypassed and you'd 
> be looking at an alsa-lib API that interfaces directly with the 
> ioctls, essentially replicating what tinycompress does. I agree it's 
> not great to have independent packages, the decision to maintain 
> tinycompress separately was driven by licensing concerns, not 
> technical ones.
> -Pierre
>

I'm not sure how dual licensing work. Is it ok to base alsa-lib support 
for compress API on tinycompress then?

Thanks,
Qais


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