[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] E-Radium V0.61b

Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen <k.s.matheussen@notam02.no> k.s.matheussen at notam02.no
Sat Jul 16 23:09:48 UTC 2005


Martin Habets:
>
> Plus not all machines have a physical RTC chip.
> If you want periodic interrupt emulation on those you need a patch [1],
> but that just generates a software interrupt. That would suffer from a
> change in HZ value AFAIK.
>

When having a server, you don't have to use /dev/rtc if its not there.
For me, having a timer-daemon, and a shared library communicating
with it, seems like the obvious (and very simple) solution for the
timer problem.

A daemon is easy to set up, and should provide the best possible timing
for the given kernel and hardware. So I really wonder, is there something
obvious I don't see? Why isn't there such a daemon? In case
its just that noone haven't bothered implementing it, I will when
I find a free day.







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