From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261714AbVC3BqR (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Mar 2005 20:46:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261716AbVC3BqR (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Mar 2005 20:46:17 -0500 Received: from ds01.webmacher.de ([213.239.192.226]:52893 "EHLO ds01.webmacher.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261714AbVC3BqH (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Mar 2005 20:46:07 -0500 In-Reply-To: References: <1111966920.5409.27.camel@gaston> <1112067369.19014.24.camel@mindpipe> <4a7a16914e8d838e501b78b5be801eca@dalecki.de> <1112084311.5353.6.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <0683ecb1e5fb577a703689d1962ad113@dalecki.de> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Lee Revell , Linux Kernel list , Benjamin Herrenschmidt From: Marcin Dalecki Subject: Re: Mac mini sound woes Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 03:45:44 +0200 To: Takashi Iwai X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2005-03-29, at 12:22, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > ALSA provides the "driver" feature in user-space because it's more > flexible, more efficient and safer than doing in kernel. It's > transparent from apps perspective. It really doesn't matter whether > it's in kernel or user space. Yes because it's that wonder full linux sound processing sucks in compare to the other OSs out there doing it in kernel. > I think your misunderstanding is that you beliieve user-space can't do > RT. It's wrong. See JACK (jackit.sf.net), for example. I know JACK in and out. It doesn't provide what you claim.