Rui Nuno Capela wrote: > midi is seriously broken on 2.6.26-rt, specially when driven outboard; > events delivered out of time if at all, outrageous jitter and > unpredictable drop outs; internally sequenced material (eg. queueing > events to a softsynth) might work barely but that is just little comfort. > > note that this badness applies to PREEMPT_RT kernels >= 2.6.26, vanilla > is fine afaict. > > all that trouble seems to be related to a regression in 2.6.26-rc2 that > just made the bkl non preemptible anymore, leaving the -rt people with a > herculean task to comply--look after Ingo Molnar's "Kill the BKL" tree > for news... I keep hearing rumors that the kernel devs are basically trying to make the vanilla kernel "rt-capable", meaning I think that they want to make special patching unnecessary for the task. What we're seeing now are side-effects of this effort, which will hopefully right itself soon. Only rumors, I'm afraid. If someone out there has some real knowledge on this issue, feel free to speak up. :-) -- Darren _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
