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. 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.
What do you suggest?

cc Gerd Hoffman




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> Alex Bennée
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