This commit fulfills a subsection titled as 'Timer-based scheduling model'.
This scheduling model is introduced in a recent decade. In this model,
applications should take care of its timing to operate sampled data
according to any timer. This is an optional behaviour of runtime of
PCM substream.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
This commit adds a section titled as 'SCHEDULING MODEL' and fulfill a
subsection titled as 'IRQ-based scheduling model'.
This scheduling model is for a typical applications to operate a kind of
data sampled against actual time. In this model, ALSA PCM core maintains
timing of the applications with notification of hardware by
blocking/waking up their processes. This is a default behaviour of
runtime of PCM substream.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
At present, some options for software parameters have actual effects in
cases neither mmap operation nor timer-based scheduling model is used.
For mmap operation, backward compatibility to aplay(1) is lost.
This commit adds descriptions about it.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
This commit attempts to describe purpose of each option with more texts
than aplay(1).
I note that a section for scheduling model will be prepared near future.
This commit just adds a placeholder for the section.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
I note that libffado backend has no support for suspend/resume because
libffado has enough implementation for these features even if it exports
some symbols for them. For this backend, reception of signals for the
features brings abortion of runtime.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Some items in a section for POSIX SIGNALS includes wrong texts.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
An implementation of transfer subcommand is the most large part and
complicated somehow. This commit adds a section titled 'DESIGN' to
manual to overall design of the subcommand.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
The axfer(1) is designed to keep backward compatibility to aplay(1)
as much as possible, however some changes are added to its behaviour.
This commit adds a section titles 'COMPATIBILITY TO APLAY' to each
manuals.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
This commit adds a manual for transfer subcommand in axfer(1). This
subcommand is a main feature of this command, to transfer audio data
frame between device/node and file/stdio.
This subcommand is designed to have several transmission backend.
Detail explanation about these backends is added in future commits.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
