On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 12:51:08PM +0100, Matthias Reichl wrote:

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 10:21:25PM +1100, Matt Flax wrote:

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On 27/02/17 21:30, Matthias Reichl wrote:

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I don't see that. Some people might want to be able to use multichannel
on RPi, but that's something very different than adding code that just
lies about driver capabilites.

I am going to invite you over for dinner to eat steamed vegetables :)
If I make the steamed vegetables in the microwave and they taste like
steamed vegetables, are they steamed vegetables ?

If you connect an amplifier with a volume control to your soundcard
does that mean that your soundcard now has a volume control? No, your
amp has.

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I have a bcm2835 (Pi 2 and 3) SoC here. It is producing multichannel (8 out,
6 in) audio. In ALSA we call that DSP mode - right ?!

No. DSP modes are protocol/timing specifications as I2S, PDP, S/PDIF, ...
You can look these up in datasheets and if a chip implements such a
protocol you can be sure that it adheres to that standard - i.e. it
will sync the frames to the pulses on LRclk.

I agree with the thoughts in this thread really if the AP doesn't
actually support DSP A mode we shouldn't add DSP A mode.

Thanks,
Charles