Re: [PATCH 3/4] new timeofday x86-64 arch specific changes (v. B1)

From: Lee Revell
Date: Sun Jun 05 2005 - 15:56:50 EST


On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 10:15 -0400, Parag Warudkar wrote:
> > Also note that pmtimer does not even drive the timer interrupt,
> > just gettimeofday.
>
> Could it be that the music players use gettimeofday() for time keeping? Sure
> enough they are broken with -rc5.

Well, that would be a broken design anyway. That's what the ALSA timer
API is for. But XMMS has a long history of buggy ALSA support anyway.

Do you get the same result with native OSS, ALSA OSS emulation, and
native ALSA?

Lee

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