[LAU] Are RT-patches needed anymore? (Was Re: >= 2.6.27 RT ETA?)

[Tapani Sysimetsä]

Peder Hedlund wrote:
> I've been running the standard kernel from openSUSE 11.0 on my Athlon  
> 2000+ and can get down to at least 5.3ms latency on an Audiophile 2496  
> using the limits.conf "trick".
>
> Do people really need lower latencies for music purposes or are we  
> just thinking "well, I needed the RT patch three years ago; I ain't  
> stopping now" ?
>   

DOHH :) Yes, my reason indeed is that I needed it 3 years ago, and 
haven't ever since tried to make music with a non-rt-patched kernel. Bye 
bye to all the hassle with compiling and headaches with wireless drivers 
(although I learned many things that way too). And rebooting! 5.8 msec 
is perfectly fine for me, and now i realize that my laptop can roll even 
with 2.9 msec (Turion 64 X2 TL-64 with Echo Indigo IO, kernel 2.6.28).

Oh mine...

Anyway,
Thanks!

Tapani