New subject: [linux-audio-user] linux kernel 2.6.0

19 Dec 2003

aguerrier:
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  Hi
 What sort of improvements are we(linux-audio-users) to expect upon
 upgrading the kernel of our DAW to 2.6.0?  I am asking the question to
 get some knowledge and start a nice discussion.  I have read 'The
 Wonderful World of Linux 2.6' on http://www.kniggit.net/wwol26.html
 There is a nice paragraph on 'audio and multimedia'; it mentions ALSA's
 inclusion in the kernel and improvements in USB Audio and MIDI devices
 and some upgrade in Video4Linux subsystem, as well.
 What does it all mean to our day-to-day productivity?  Should I now get
 the M-Audio Firewire 410, because its functionality might/probably have
 improved?
 Any thoughts? 
My experience with 2.6, and also the impression I have got from reading
linux-audio-dev, is actually the opposite. The 2.6.0 kernel is worse
for multimedia work, because the latency is higher than 2.4.0 with the
low-latency patch. I don't know mathematical that this is correct, but it
seems so.

Hopefully it is possible to make a low-latency patch for the 2.6 kernel as
well?

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