Question: CPU tells HDD to copy MP3 to RAM, CPU copies data into cache, what does it do to manipulate it before sending it to the audio card
Some do hardware mixing of channels and such, but if you already have a DMA controller, a soundcard is basically just...
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...a single DMA-targetable register (per channel) hooked up to a DAC.
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