The audio contributors and maintainers have organized a workshop roughly once every year for a number of years now, these have been really useful both for face to face design discussions and for making sure that the perspectives of people working on userspaces (especially Android and ChromeOS where development is more inward focused) get included.

Potential topics include:

• Low latency audio
• Inter-device dependenices (general kernel topic)
• mmap/no IRQ mode
• Time stamping
• USB audio power and latency performance
• Move of clocking into the clock API
• Propagating digital configuration through the DAPM graph
  • http://metafoo.de/the_new_asoc.svg
• HDA/ASoC integration
• Userspace and configuration integration (how will topology etc get integrated in OSes)
• UCM scaling, does it scale well…?
• Standardizing HDMI / DP interface
• Media Controller API integration
• How to improve upstreaming vendor drivers?
• Stable / LTS kernel maintenance
• SoundWire support
  • https://github.com/rakeshughreja/soundwire/blob/master/SoundWire_Plumbers.pdf
• Para Virtualized audio driver support
• Tracepoints for PCM parameter support
• Userspace drivers (for IEEE 1394 and other things)
  • https://github.com/takaswie/presentations/blob/master/20161101-alsa-control-server.pdf
• Dropping the DICE driver

• Pierre-Louis Bossart
• Mark Brown
• Lars-Peter Clausen
• Liam Girdwood
• Takashi Iwai
• Vinod Koul
• Eric Laurent
• Mengdong Lin
• Dylan Reid
• Arun Raghavan

Mark Brown (broonie@kernel.org)