[alsa-devel] [PATCH 5/7] ALSA: core: Implement compress page allocation and free routines

[Pierre-Louis Bossart]

On 12/17/19 4:24 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Dec 2019 10:58:49 +0100,
> Cezary Rojewski wrote:
>>
>> Add simple malloc and free methods for memory management for compress
>> streams. Based on snd_pcm_lib_malloc_pages and snd_pcm_lib_free_pages
>> implementation.
> 
> I see no user of these functions in the series.  How these are
> supposed to be used?

I asked Cezary to post those patches on alsa-devel to make sure there is 
no disagreement on the initial solution.

The next steps would be probes (data injection/extraction in the DSP 
firmware) and compressed audio support for i.MX and Intel platforms.
Both would be coming in early Q1 next year.