10 May
2003
10 May
'03
4:18 p.m.
Hey guys, the other day I got a chance to speak to a buddy of mine who
is a cpu/OS guru and he was telling me how the author of original Unix
(whose name I can't recall) made this "new" OS called Plan 9 (currently
owned by Bell labs) that essentially fixes all of the shortcomings in
Unix, one of them being multiplexing the /dev stuff on the kernel level.
This would mean that driver implementation API would not need to do
software down-mixing when all that would be done in kernel-space. Seems
that the preliminary results are rather impressive (but probably not
sample accurate, hence we would still need jack for pro stuff). Yet, I
am wondering whether Kernel people should know about this and whether
such overhaul would be doable in the 2.6 or later revisions of Linux
kernel.
Any thoughts?
Ivica Ico Bukvic, composer & multimedia sculptor
http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/~ico
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admin(a)music.columbia.edu] On Behalf Of Taybin
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 10:30 AM
To: jackit-devel; laa; lad; lau
Subject: [linux-audio-dev] JACK 0.71.1 released
JACK 0.71.1
JACK is a low-latency audio server, written primarily for the
GNU/Linux
operating system. It can connect a number of different
applications to
an audio device, as well as allowing them to share audio between
themselves. Its clients can run in their own processes (ie. as normal
applications), or can they can run within the JACK server (ie. as a
"plugin").
JACK is different from other audio server efforts in that it has been
designed from the ground up to be suitable for professional audio
work.
This means that it focuses on two key areas:
synchronous execution of
all clients, and low latency operation.
**CHANGES**
* fltk macros/detection from bob ham
* tmpdir configure-time patch from jesse chappell
* socket error handling change (with additional graph sort!)
from stephane letz
* xrun init patch from gunter geiger
Taybin Rutkin