On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 03:22:42PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 12:12 -0700, Iain Duncan wrote:
> > > In realtime critical applications people prefer RTLinux or the RTAI extension
> > > to the kernel for periods and scheduling latencies in the low microseconds
> > > range (<30 microseconds worst case scheduling latency on recent x86
> > > hardware).
> > I've often wondered about that. Why are those sorts of kernels
> > inappropriate for audio? ( Just out of curiousity. )
> what device drivers do you think they can run?
ALSA (or some other driver infrastructure and drivers) would have to be
ported to those environments. Or a new infrastructure and drivers for
sound cards would have to be written from scratch.
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