[linux-audio-user] Re: What parts of Linux audio simply suck ?

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 02:12, Sampo Savolainen wrote:
> Quoting Christoph Eckert <mchristoph.eckert at t-online.de>:
> 
> > We all would be glad if we didn't need to patch and recompile 
> > the kernel. BUt there's hope that we get realtime 
> > capabilities in the vanilla kernel soon. Let's stay tuned.
> 
> You are a bit late actually. :)
> 
> >From 2.6.12 changelog:
> 
> "commit e43379f10b42194b8a6e1de342cfb44463c0f6da
> Author: Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com>
> Date:   Sun May 1 08:59:00 2005 -0700
> 
>     [PATCH] nice and rt-prio rlimits
>     
>     Add a pair of rlimits for allowing non-root tasks to raise nice and rt
>     priorities. Defaults to traditional behavior. Originally written by
>     Chris Wright.

He may have been talking about the realtime preemption patch by Ingo
Molnar...

-- Fernando