diff src/alsa-ng/TODO @ 3171:cb93b500a364

alsa-ng: Add more notes on this.
author William Pitcock <nenolod@atheme.org>
date Fri, 15 May 2009 04:20:09 -0500
parents 5166d34025cc
children 0c4359baee34
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--- a/src/alsa-ng/TODO	Fri May 15 00:49:04 2009 -0500
+++ b/src/alsa-ng/TODO	Fri May 15 04:20:09 2009 -0500
@@ -11,3 +11,17 @@
   majorly, I want to be able to just choose a soundcard and have it set up the mixer
   the right way on it's own. This is 2009, and this should be possible.
 
+Things that won't be reimplemented:
+
+- support for custom period sizes and buffer sizes. we want to use the ALSA defaults
+  since they provide the optimal values for each card. this means that specifying
+  period/buffer sizes is retarded.
+
+Notable differences between the old ALSA plugin and the new one:
+
+- tickless design:
+  The old ALSA plugin basically did a lot of polling. This does not, instead using
+  an event-driven tickless design using conditionals.
+
+- uses ALSA "safe" API subset:
+  Plugin should work correctly with all userspace plugins.