Status of AESS

Hiya folks,

Well, it's been a while since I heard anything about the audio driver, so I wanted to check back what the status is.

I guess AESS couldn't be made to work? We just tried playing some emulation on the Pyra - and PulseAudio needed a whopping 38% CPU power simply to play the audio.

aplay with a 32 bit 4 channel 96000Hz wav takes 0.7-1.0% cpu, so it's pretty clear that audio is TOTALLY unusable without hardware mixing.

So we NEED to get that working. Does anybody know someone who would be capable of that? Even if he needs to be hired and paid, but sound is unusable at the moment.