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

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

El lun, 20-06-2005 a las 06:12, Sampo Savolainen escribió:
> 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.
>     
>     The patch implements a simple rlimit ceiling for the RT (and nice)
> priorities
>     a task can set.  The rlimit defaults to 0, meaning no change in behavior by
>     default.  A value of 50 means RT priority levels 1-50 are allowed.  A
> value of
>     100 means all 99 privilege levels from 1 to 99 are allowed.  CAP_SYS_NICE is
>     blanket permission.
>     
>     (akpm: see
> http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0503.1/1921.html for
>     tips on integrating this with PAM).
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com>
>     Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo at elte.hu>
>     Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at osdl.org>
>     Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at osdl.org>"
> 
> 
>  Sampo Savolainen

Does this means that I can download the kernel source, compile it
without _any_ patch and have a "multimedia kernel" (aka a suitable
kernel for doing realtime audio) in my machine?

If so, damn, I'm downloading it!

Cheers, Damian.-


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