The state of FireWire audio interfaces support on Linux (Libre Graphics World)

Libre Graphics World has an extensive examination of Linux support for Firewire audio interfaces often used in professional sound work. The story includes interviews with developers from the Free FireWire Audio Drivers (FFADO) and ALSA projects. "The ease at which FFADO can shift its streaming subsystem into the kernel comes about because of the way that device streaming and control has been carefully separated from the very beginning. This means that we can remove the streaming parts without affecting device control in any way. In fact, even now the device control part of FFADO would happily run on a system with a hypothetical kernel streaming driver."

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