Have anyone tried to use sndio in a (Musl-)LFS build?

[takusuman]

I think that would be a great experiment.

[takusuman]

By the way, sndio officially supports Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and, obviously, OpenBSD; so, in theory, we shouldn't have any problems.

EDIT: Void Linux template file for further reference: https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/blob/master/srcpkgs/sndio/template

[takusuman]

It seems like it's still leaning on ALSA for communicating with the Linux kernel, but it still a lot saner than PulseAudio.

[dslm4515]

Wait, I think I did when building pipewire.

[takusuman]

I was thinking in making my build with it, but I couldn't find a lot of information on it.
I mean, how does it depend on ALSA to work on Linux (and could I use OSS?)? What I'd need to compile? Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera...

I can try building it later here and seeing how does it work.

[dslm4515]

I just checked. I built it as “libsndio”

https://github.com/dslm4515/BMLFS/build-scripts/libsndio.build

[takusuman]

I will study it more later when I can go back to my desk without having to worry with other appointments.

[takusuman]

May I can contribute here with something related to sndio.

[dslm4515]

Sure.

i was thinking of finding an alternative to Pulseaudio… maybe pipewire with sndio?

I remember my early builds of LFS did not use pulseaudio.

[takusuman]

Sure.

i was thinking of finding an alternative to Pulseaudio… maybe pipewire with sndio?

I remember my early builds of LFS did not use pulseaudio.

I think PipeWire already do what sndio does and vice-versa.
There's an article at Wikipedia briefly explaining how it works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_server#Sound_server_in_an_operating_system

[takusuman]

sndio and PipeWire are both audio servers, it, theoretically, do the same thing --- PulseAudio too, just to complement.

[takusuman]

It would be cool if we could substitute the Sound Subsystem, although ALSA still seeming the best option nowadays in comparison to OSS in terms of support to hardware.