[H]omer <spam@xxxxxxx> espoused:
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> [X-Fi Drivers to Linux]
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Creative plans to make proprietary (closed source) drivers available
>> | for the X-Fi series of sound cards. SEE Soundcard Support for
>> | updated details. These drivers should have full support for ALSA
>> | (playback, recording, mixer, MIDI, synthesis) and OpenAL 1.1 (with
>> | EAX effects).
>> `----
>>
>> http://opensource.creative.com/
>
> Creative still haven't got their *Vista* drivers for X-Fi out of Beta,
> and they're already going ahead with Linux drivers!
>
> My, my. How times change.
>
>> Linux is suitable for audio professionals.
>
> With a low-latency kernel, better ... even.
>
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.
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...
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