Re: VirtioSound device emulation implementation

[Shreyansh Chouhan <chouhan.shreyansh2702@gmail.com>]

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On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 at 22:49, Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:

>
> Shreyansh Chouhan <chouhan.shreyansh2702@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 at 17:12, Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Shreyansh Chouhan <chouhan.shreyansh2702@gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > Hey everyone!
> >> >
> >> > I want to work on implementing the emulation for the VritioSound
> device.
> >> I
> >> > contacted the mentor for the project, (Greg), who said it's fine and
> >> that I
> >> > should declare it on the mailing list in order to find out if someone
> >> else
> >> > is already working on this project. That is what this mail is for. I
> >> tried
> >> > searching for "Virtio", "Sound", and "VirtioSound" in the qemu-devel
> >> > mailing archives but couldn't find anything. If someone is already
> >> working
> >> > on it, please let me know, and if not then I'll start working on it
> right
> >> > away.
> >>
> >> I'm not working on it but please feel free to CC me on discussion and
> >> patches. I have a general interest on Virtio IO implementations at the
> >> moment.
> >>
> >
> > Sure! (Though I should mention that I do not know a lot about the virtio
> > architecture yet. I am still reading up about it. So most of my mails
> might
> > be (silly) queries. Though I hope to learn about it soon and send in
> > some patches and tests :)
> >
> >
> >> Are you planning to make it an in-QEMU device or maybe a external
> >> vhost-user daemon?
> >
> > The project page states that we need to use the QEMU audio subsystem
> > for playing and capturing audio samples.
>
> Is this one of the QEMU internship projects?
>
Yes, it is one of the GSoC projects.

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> > I am not entirely sure if this implies that the device should be an
> > in-QEMU device or if it could be an external daemon.
>
> I think it implies having the entire emulation in-QEMU.
>
I see, after reading yours and Gerd's response, I think I will study/think
about
the implementation details and then decide which will be the best route for
me.

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> > What do you suggest?
> >
> > cc Gerd Hoffman
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >> --
> >> Alex Bennée
> >>
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>
> --
> Alex Bennée
>

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