[linux-audio-user] solaris 9 and audio recomendations

[Lee Revell]

On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 19:32 -0400, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> Actually, does anyone know if it would be realistic to port ALSA to a
> new platform, or is it too severly linux dependent?
> 

It might not be that hard.  It's really hard to say without trying it.

> However, I wonder what sort of latencies you will be able to get under
> Solaris 9 or Solaris 10.  I've always assumed that they wouldn't be
> very good, but maybe someone else knows better than me. 

I would actually expect them to be very good.  Solaris pioneered many of
the soft realtime features in the late 80s that Linux is only now
getting in the -rt patch - for example, interrupt threading.

Lee