On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Daniel James <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi John, > >> There is something called Planet CCRMA, which is a set of >> repositories for audio packages that run on RedHat, Fedora and CentOS. >> They also package the real-time kernel in rpm form. > > Ready-packaged RT kernels make sense for JACK users with generic PCs, > who may not be all that interested in optimisation (at first). They just > want to be able to install a program like Ardour and have it run > glitch-free. > > Being a release or two behind the bleeding edge is no bad thing for that > type of user either - if (for instance) 2.6.31-rt works fine in a > production audio system, there's no big hurry to change it and > potentially break stuff. For that sort of user, high availability is > much more important than squeezing every last drop of performance out of > the hardware. > > In audio recording, we're potentially capturing once-in-a-lifetime or > one-time-ever events, particularly since the industry focus has shifted > from the studio to the live stage - whether TV, stadium or festival, > that's where the artists are making their living these days. Even > festivals run to tight schedules, with only 15 minutes allowed to switch > between acts, including moving all the gear and repatching it. You can't > ask the band to go and get a beer while you recompile your kernel :-) Well, you've certainly slayed a straw man there. Just because I said it would be good for people to compile their own kernels doesn't mean I meant for them to do it on stage! Btw, I quite enjoy studio64, feel free to update our rtwiki with information about it. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
