On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Ray Rashif <schivmeister@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2009/10/9 Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Ray Rashif <schivmeister@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Yeah I don't see a problem either..I would rather look for a binary >> > first >> > before building an app as the last resort. >> >> Somewhat different POV here. I run Gentoo and therefore everything is >> built from source. Clearly to each his or her own. >> >> But with respect to the kernel it's my experience that 98% of the >> stuff any of us doing low-latency audio stuff is identical and then >> the only differences would be chipset specific things. These days with >> only 4-5 chipset manufacturers (Intel, Nvidia, ATI, AMD and then maybe >> Via and a couple of others) it seems to me that we should have a >> non-distro specific web page somewhere that goes through this for >> audio kernels. I suspect that Fernando already has this somewhere for >> CCRMA. Possibly leverage from that? >> >> Personally I don't like distro kernels because distro packagers are >> forever adding things to the kernel that aren't tested by the >> rt-kernel team and I don't want to deal with those problems. >> >> Just my 2 cents, >> Mark > > Well I was refering to users on binary systems, obviously. And I understood that completely. However my thought is we all use binary systems - it's just a question about how it becomes binary. > And that may be true for the popular distros, but Arch does not "add" to > their kernels/packages _unnecessarily_, so neither does archaudio.org :) Good to know. Not true about Gentoo. None the less, the real-time kernel source form Ingo and the rest of the team doesn't have any additions other than the rt stuff so it meets that requirement which I think we both appreciate. Anyway, my thought was more about creating commonality between the kernels users like those on this list run instead of letting some nameless/faceless person out in the ether make decisions about that create different problems for each of us. Probably it's of no interest to others. Cheers, Mark > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
