Russell Hanaghan <hanaghan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 08:30, Jack O'Quin wrote: > > Russell Hanaghan <hanaghan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > Does anyone know if a package for this kernel has been done for Mandrake > > > 10.0? I'm not at the pseudo Jedi Warrior level for compiling kernels > > > just yet! :) Although, I HAVE become a master at compiling Wine and fst > > > / jack_fst! :P > > > > Actually, compiling your own kernel is probably easier than that. :-) > > Good god man! I've lost most of my hair and my wife left and the dog > died while I got jack_fst to finally work!! :) My condolences. ;-) I didn't say it was trivial. If wine and jack_fst is an 8 or 9 (on a difficulty scale from one to 10), building your own kernel is probably only a 6 or 7. Why? Despite the inherent complexity, kernel builds are a well-trodden path, with years of development support and mature configuration interfaces, makefiles, HOWTOs, README, etc. Because jack_fst is so new, it will likely require a bit of fiddling for a while yet. Any time you work with Windows binaries, things get tricky. They're not made to work with Linux. The kernel sources are. > And now, darn it...you got me thinking I should try! Are there any > advantages to compiling and leaving out the bunches of crap I don't ever > use that are built in the kernel? Like resources, memory, speed savings > of any sort? There are minor advantages. None are really compelling unless you need some feature (like lower latency) not available with your distribution's version. Most distributions keep up to date fairly well. So if you're willing to wait a while, they will likely provide what you need. But, curiosity is a good enough reason. It just costs time, no money. :-) I my view, the vanilla 2.6.7 kernels perform well enough already for many audio applications. If you need something better, by all means try some of the recent patches. Lee, Flo, Nando, Takashi and others have done valuable work providing a test bed for kernel developers like Ingo and Andrew to do their work. It's beautiful to see. -- joq
