[linux-audio-dev] interesting read

[Paul Davis]

>Not just zero copy, you don't even need to interrupt at the period
>boundary.  The critical hardware feature is being able to mmap the
>position register.  Does any current hardware do this?

old ISA cards could do this :(

i did some experiments, oh, maybe 4-5 years ago with my wavefront card
using single-sample processing. pretty cool.

>If Ingo's RT patches and the high res POSIX timers patch get merged then
>Linux can provide the kind of deterministic RT scheduling described in

actually, this is the 2nd of two critical features, one h/w, one s/w.

--p