Re: [linux-audio-dev] an open letter to Linus re: low latency

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] an open letter to Linus re: low latency
From: Paul Barton-Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: Fri Jun 23 2000 - 04:39:06 EEST


>So the *most important* thing which is required to have sound mixing support
>or low latency or whatever in the kernel is somebody who really cares about
>it, who likes working on it and who is good at it.

Stefan - meet the ALSA team, ALSA team - meet Stefan.

>I personally tend to think that having too much sound stuff in the kernel
>isn't a good idea either. We also do not run X11 in the kernel ;-). You have
>some restrictions when writing kernel code, which you don't have when you're
>able to solve the same thing in user land. Thats why I am working on aRts,
>which can do the sound server thing esd does, too, but does a whole lot more
>and may be just the solid multimedia foundation you ask for.

Some of us have no particular interest in "multimedia", but want a
platform to implement stuff that is equivalent to dedicated hardware
solutions to particular audio problems. I don't want to see the issue
diluted into "what kind of user-space apps are the right ones?"

The issue this letter is raising is that right now, the stock kernel
cannot support low-latency/real-time audio+MIDI applications even as
well as Windows (thats not saying much at all), despite the existence
of some patches that enable it to do so. Lets get the kernel working
right, and then we can have cream pie fights over sound daemon API's :)

--p


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