Subject: Re: Mac mini sound woes
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Marcin Dalecki <martin@dalecki.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
       Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>,
       Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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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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