Re: Mac mini sound woes

From: Lee Revell
Date: Wed Mar 30 2005 - 00:46:57 EST


On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 03:48 +0200, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
> On 2005-03-30, at 01:39, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Look at the pile of junk that are most winmodem driver implementations,
> > nothing I want to see in the kernel ever. Those things should be in
> > userland.
>
> You are joking? Linux IS NOT an RT OS.

Are you joking? Any system that can capture audio, do a little DSP on
it and play it back without skipping can drive a Winmodem. Are you
saying Linux can't possibly do that because it's not an RTOS?

I bet you could implement a Winmodem driver as a JACK client.

Lee



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