Re: [ANNOUNCE] FUSD v1.00: Framework for User-Space Devices

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > > > Yep. And linmodem driver does signal processing, so it is big and
> > > > ugly. And up till now, it had to be in kernel. With your patches, such
> > > > drivers could be userspace (where they belong!). Of course, it would be 
> > > > very good if your interface did not change...
> > > 
> > > I don't see how linmodem drivers apply.  At least not at the low-level
> > > because you actually have to driver the hardware, respond to interrupts
> > > etc.  On some of this I can see a driver split like there is for the video
> > 
> > You don't actually need interrupts -- you *know* when next sample arrives.
> > And port io is completely fine with iopl() ;-).
> 
> But DMA? You are talking about what amounts to a sound card driver.
> And since in the cases that burn cpu time you have to process raw
> sound samples into modem data, you need to shift a fair amount of
> data. inb and outb just don't have the bandwidth.  So you need a
> kernel side component that drives the hardware to some extent.

You need to push 8kHz/16bit, that's 16 kilobytes per second. Or maybe
you can sample at 11kHz, getting 20 kilobytes per second. Comfortably
done with inb/outb.

> Additionally you still don't need a FUSD driver for that case.  All
> you need is to have is a ptty.  Because that is what modem drivers
> are now.  And the ptty route has binary and source compatiblity
> to multiple unix platforms.

I do not think tty/pty pair does cut it for AT emulation. Can you
really emulate all neccessary features using pty/tty?
								Pavel
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