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Commit 4eeaaeae authored by Pierre-Louis Bossart's avatar Pierre-Louis Bossart Committed by Takashi Iwai
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ALSA: core: add hooks for audio timestamps



ALSA did not provide any direct means to infer the audio time for A/V
sync and system/audio time correlations (eg. PulseAudio).
Applications had to track the number of samples read/written and
add/subtract the number of samples queued in the ring buffer.  This
accounting led to small errors, typically several samples, due to the
two-step process.  Computing the audio time in the kernel is more
direct, as all the information is available in the same routines.

Also add new .audio_wallclock routine to enable fine-grain synchronization
between monotonic system time and audio hardware time.
Using the wallclock, if supported in hardware, allows for a
much better sub-microsecond precision and a common drift tracking for
all devices sharing the same wall clock (master clock).

Signed-off-by: default avatarPierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
parent 0e8014d7
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