On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:24:15 +0100 maximilian attems wrote: > hello francesco, > > nice to read you! :) Hi Maximilian! Thanks for your quick reply. > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 12:10:04AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > > By reading the bug log, I seem to understand that this is due to > > stability concerns by the Debian Kernel Team. > > Do these concerns still hold, now that more than 2 years have > > passed? > > well partialy > but due to shipment in all major distribution volountary preemption > is beeing reconsidered as well preempt_bkl > http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2007/11/msg00496.html > tickless kernel is an environmental necessity and thus enabled > http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2007/12/msg00014.html > hz_1000 needs a benchmark run. This *sounds* encouraging. Let's make the *Universal OS* suitable for intensive audio processing too! ;-) [...] > > If I read /usr/share/doc/jackd/README.Debian correctly, activating > > preemption would benefit audio applications, especially: > > > > | 3. use a 2.6 kernel with the realtime-preempt patch applied > > > > I would love to see Debian as ready as possible for setting up an > > audio processing workstation with minimal configuration (and without > > recompiling kernels or other packages). > > well the realtime patch already helped a lot, > but is not ready for default. > it is currently quite marketing hyped by rh and suse. This means that I cannot use the realtime option with jackd on a pure Debian box (testing or unstable), at present. Do I understand correctly? -- http://frx.netsons.org/doc/nanodocs/testing_workstation_install.html Need to read a Debian testing installation walk-through? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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