Re: Hardware timers?

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On 02-09-2020 09:28, Roger wrote:
> On 2/9/20 4:40 pm, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
>> Roger wrote:
>>> The wiki guide at https://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/system_configuration
>>> is still a goldmine for setup but it contains some sections of which I
>>> am unsure whether they are still applicable, including the HW timers
>>> bit.
>> It still mentions 2.6 kernels.
>>
>> Setting max-user-freq for RTC or HPET would be required only if some
>> application actually accessed these devices directly from user space.
>> As far as I know, nobody ever did this (because ALSA has its own timer
>> abstraction), so this has never been applicable.

Thanks for the clarification!

>>
>> Regards,
>> Clemens
> 
> Thanks, Clemens. I was thinking to contact raboof to remove that section
> from RealtimeConfigQuickScan as that's still used by quite a few people
> afaik. Then to gather a task force to update the wiki!

I'll look into that. More souls aboard is always welcome of course!

Best,

Jeremy



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