Re: [RFC PATCH] audio: proper support for float samples in mixeng

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 09:38:39PM +0100, Zoltán Kővágó wrote:
> On 2020-02-03 11:00, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On Sun, 2 Feb 2020 at 19:39, Kővágó, Zoltán <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > 
> > > This adds proper support for float samples in mixeng by adding a new
> > > audio format for it.
> > > 
> > > Limitations: only native endianness is supported.
> > 
> > Could you explain a bit more what this limitation means, please?
> > In general QEMU behaviour shouldn't depend on the endianness
> > of the host, ie we should byteswap where necessary.
> 
> None of the virtual sound cards support float samples (it looks like most of
> them only support 8 and 16 bit, only hda supports 32 bit), it is only used
> for the audio backends (i.e. host side).

Queued patch & added this to the commit message.

thanks,
  Gerd