9 Jan
2005
9 Jan
'05
4:16 p.m.
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 20:52 +0100, Stefano Cavallari wrote:
Il dom, 2005-01-09 alle 19:42, Lee Revell ha scritto:
Not just zero copy, you don't even need to interrupt at the period
boundary. The critical hardware feature is being able to mmap the
position register. Does any current hardware do this?
Anyway if it works like they claim, it implies
the middle layer is quite
powerful. It's a fascinating read. The really interesting stuff is in
the Word document.
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/audio/wavertport.mspx
http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/b/5/5b5bec17-ea71-4653-9539-204a67…
Lee
It seems an interface for zero-copy drivers.
Correct me if I am wrong.
Anyway, what is the status of linux alsa drivers
regarding rt
capabilities?
If Ingo's RT patches and the high res POSIX timers patch get merged then
Linux can provide the kind of deterministic RT scheduling described in
this article right now. Maybe this will light a fire under some
people ;-)
Lee