Re: linux interrupt handling problem

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 10 Nov 1999 18:05:49 +0100

Roman Zippel wrote:
> Unfortunately it's not that simple, for some simple timer based data
> collection RTLinux is a nice solution, but as soon as you want something
> more advanced, e.g. realtime audio editing, you have problems, as this
> usually requires a good IO system. Also if you want to go the desktop with
> linux, there is still some work to do in the so called 'multimedia' area.
> You can of course always upgrade your computer to improve such things, but
> then you can also install this other 'os'.

Note that for 'multimedia' there is already a "low latency" patch which
gives very good latency figures on modest modern hardware. I don't know
if it is in the kernel yet or not.

-- Jamie

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