Re: [linux-audio-dev] RFD: Audio Needs for Kernel 2.5+

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] RFD: Audio Needs for Kernel 2.5+
From: Erik Steffl (esteffl_AT_pbi.net)
Date: Tue Jun 20 2000 - 02:23:40 EEST


  I didn't find it there (I checked both latest and few days in the
past), can you please spoecify it more precisely? maybe I just don't
recognize the heading. thank you.

        erik

Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
>
> hello lad and alsa folks !
>
> having just read the wishlist for the 2.5 kernel series at
>
> http://kt.linuxcare.com/kernel-traffic/latest.epl ,
>
> i found that
>
> * ALSA was only marked "W" (for wish, not "I"mportant or "N"eeded)
> * the low-latency patches are not mentioned any more.
>
> i don't know too much about the internals of kernel development, and
> it might well be that the lowlatency patches have become obsolete by
> now, but i'd like to make sure.
> as to the inclusion of alsa, i think this reflects a frame of mind
> that dave phillips has pointed out in another mail:
>
> * many people (even on lkml) are not yet seeing the potential and
> the need to make linux a state-of-the-art multimedia platform.
>
> a discussion about these issues here on LAD might
> a) help to gather facts and result in a detailed list of audio
> developers' needs
> b) produce a post to lkml in which they are communicated to the
> kernel folk.
>
> (would be best if someone who already hangs out on lkml take over
> this job [pbd ?])
>
> comments ?
>
> regards,
>
> jörn
>
> ps: this is some sort of follow-up to a thread named "alan doesn't
> like us" that went on a while ago on alsa-dev. afaik, it ended
> without any results.
>
> --
> Jörn Nettingsmeier
> Kurfürstenstr. 49
> 45138 Essen, Germany
> http://www.folkwang.uni-essen.de/~nettings/


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