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Re: [News] [Linux] Creative Will Bring X-Fi Drivers to Linux

  • Subject: Re: [News] [Linux] Creative Will Bring X-Fi Drivers to Linux
  • From: Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 21:07:27 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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[H]omer <spam@xxxxxxx> espoused:
> Verily I say unto thee, that Mark Kent spake thusly:
> 
>> I saw some excellent work on kernel patches done by one of the main
>> embedded linux providers (don't recall which one);  the blocking
>> behaviour of the kernel was hugely improved.
> 
> It's an easy install for Fedora users:
> 
> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/
> 
>> The problem of streaming audio through the kernel is much the same as
>> the problem of moving streams across networks - you need a particular
>> kind of system behaviour which is able to fully respect the temporal
>> relationship of the data constantly, not just in bursts.  We need 3-mode
>> kernels...
> 
> There's been a hell of a lot of work going on upstream in the kernel
> recently, including latency and scheduling improvements, so maybe Planet
> CCRMA will be redundant by the release of F7.
> 

That would be good!

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