Re: [linux-audio-dev] interesting read

From: Paul Davis <paul@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun Jan 09 2005 - 22:52:10 EET

>Not just zero copy, you don't even need to interrupt at the period
>boundary. The critical hardware feature is being able to mmap the
>position register. Does any current hardware do this?

old ISA cards could do this :(

i did some experiments, oh, maybe 4-5 years ago with my wavefront card
using single-sample processing. pretty cool.

>If Ingo's RT patches and the high res POSIX timers patch get merged then
>Linux can provide the kind of deterministic RT scheduling described in

actually, this is the 2nd of two critical features, one h/w, one s/w.

--p
Received on Mon Jan 10 04:15:28 2005

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