2009/10/9 Mark Knecht <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:markknecht@gmail.com">markknecht@gmail.com</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Ray Rashif <<a href="mailto:schivmeister@gmail.com">schivmeister@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Yeah I don't see a problem either..I would rather look for a binary first<br>
> before building an app as the last resort.<br>
<br>
Somewhat different POV here. I run Gentoo and therefore everything is<br>
built from source. Clearly to each his or her own.<br>
<br>
But with respect to the kernel it's my experience that 98% of the<br>
stuff any of us doing low-latency audio stuff is identical and then<br>
the only differences would be chipset specific things. These days with<br>
only 4-5 chipset manufacturers (Intel, Nvidia, ATI, AMD and then maybe<br>
Via and a couple of others) it seems to me that we should have a<br>
non-distro specific web page somewhere that goes through this for<br>
audio kernels. I suspect that Fernando already has this somewhere for<br>
CCRMA. Possibly leverage from that?<br>
<br>
Personally I don't like distro kernels because distro packagers are<br>
forever adding things to the kernel that aren't tested by the<br>
rt-kernel team and I don't want to deal with those problems.<br>
<br>
Just my 2 cents,<br>
<font color="#888888">Mark<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><div>Well I was refering to users on binary systems, obviously.</div><div><br></div><div>And that may be true for the popular distros, but Arch does not "add" to their kernels/packages _unnecessarily_, so neither does <a href="http://archaudio.org">archaudio.org</a> :) </div>