28 Mar
2006
28 Mar
'06
7:32 p.m.
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 00:14 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo,
Lee Revell hat gesagt: // Lee Revell wrote:
It could - it seems to me that it would only be a little work for a
vendor to set up such a program relative to the sales it would generate.
Just add some kind of RTC based latency test to the burn-in suite.
Seems to me if it takes a day to set up and generated even 5-10 sales it
would be worthwhile...
On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 23:03 +0200, Frank
Barknecht wrote:
As this probably won't happen (soon) The good thing is, that with barebones the
manufacturer often tries to
follow the standards a bit more, because in the long run it will make
it easier for them as far as support etc. is concerned. These
barebones are sold under various different brandnames, so they like to
keep this side of possible failures as small as possible.
Right, but I don't think there's any standard that says laptops must be
usable for low latency or prohibits the BIOS from implementing ACPI via
SMM...
The only way to be sure is if there were a vendor who sold laptops
certified for low latency. maybe it's indeed best to try to
create a kind of whitelist as you suggested. And of course a
blacklist, which could create pressure on manufacturers.
Right now all I have is some anecdotal evidence that many Acer laptops
seem to have the ACPI/SMM bug. Can someone with an Acer laptop confirm
or deny this?
I guess, not
only Linux is affected by a latency-killing BIOS, right?
Yes, in theory. So presumably if you found good anecdotal evidence that
a given laptop is good for live audio with Windows it *should* be OK for
Linux...
Ciao