Florian Schmidt <mista.tapas@xxxxxxx> writes: > i wonder about how ready linux 2.6.0 is for audio stuff? Is vanilla > 2.6.0 with preemtion enabled comparable to 2.4.22 with preemption + > andrew's LowLatency patches [which i use right now]? On my system, the vanilla 2.6 with preemption is usable for audio, but nowhere near as good at low latencies as a properly patched and tuned 2.4 kernel. > I somewhere read something about merging andrews LL and the preemptible > patches. Is there any truth to that? We all hope so. > What about the 2.4.x capabilities "patch"? Will this work on 2.6.x? Yes, I think it will. But, 2.6 provides a mechanism for doing this as a kernel module with no patches required. Here is an experimental module I built based on earlier work done by Torben Hohn... http://www.joq.us/realtime/realtime-0.0.2.tar.gz -- joq
