Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: 2.6.15-rt20, "bad page state", jackd (alsa 1.0.10 vs. recent kernels)

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:33:50 -0800,
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 12:05 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Sun, 12 Mar 2006 22:53:41 -0500,
> > Lee Revell wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 19:39 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 22:31 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > > >  
> > > > > Older ALSA with a newer kernel has never been supported.  Why would you
> > > > > want to replace the ALSA in the kernel with an old version?
> > > > 
> > > > Because it is not an older version?
> > > > "cat /proc/asound/version" for the 2.6.15 in kernel tree prints this:
> > > >   Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.10rc3
> > > > That should be older than 1.0.10 final.
> > > 
> > > Ah, sorry.  Then you're right, this patch must have slipped through the
> > > cracks.
> > 
> > Well, ALSA 1.0.10-final was already released in last November,
> > i.e. before 2.6.15.  When 2.6.15 was released, we had ALSA 1.0.11rc2.
> 
> I understand. Still, 2.6.15 has 1.0.10rc3 and current alsa "stable" does
> not work out of the box with it (at least for some of the cards and in
> my tests - hmmm, maybe this only happens when running with the -rt
> patches?). 

I hoped to release 1.0.11-final much ealier to make it available for
2.6.15 kernel, but it's delayed quite much, so far.
The current release-cycle is really really bad...


Takashi