Fix for PPC audio devices that can't reendianize samples

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Iain Sandoe wrote:
> > The attached patch adds code to drivers/sound/dmasound/trans_16.c to
> > byteswap little-endian audio samples for hardware that needs it (like the
> > DACA audio chip in the iBook and iBook FireWire), and also marks the DACA
> > in the iBook FireWire as being unable to handle little-endian audio
> > samples (in dmasound_awacs.c).
>
> we've been round this loop ;-)))
>
> the reason that the byte-swap code was taken out of trans_16.c is that it
> will never be allowed into the kernel.

And we'll have to remove the current byteswap code in the kernel (there still
is some).

> (b) if applications don't work properly with BE-only devs then bang on the
> app maintainer (or send patches) to fix it.

And since Debian has a nice bug tracking system: try the Debian version of the
app, if that one doesn't work, file a Debian bug report.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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