Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261229AbVE2ELS (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 May 2005 00:11:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261228AbVE2ELS (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 May 2005 00:11:18 -0400 Received: from h80ad24ed.async.vt.edu ([128.173.36.237]:52486 "EHLO h80ad24ed.async.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261229AbVE2ELN (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 May 2005 00:11:13 -0400 Message-Id: <200505290408.j4T487n6024489@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.1-RC3 To: Zwane Mwaikambo Cc: Lee Revell , Bill Huey , Nick Piggin , Andi Kleen , Sven-Thorsten Dietrich , Ingo Molnar , dwalker@mvista.com, hch@infradead.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RT patch acceptance In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 28 May 2005 20:58:23 MDT." From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <1117044019.5840.32.camel@sdietrich-xp.vilm.net> <20050526193230.GY86087@muc.de> <1117138270.1583.44.camel@sdietrich-xp.vilm.net> <20050526202747.GB86087@muc.de> <4296ADE9.50805@yahoo.com.au> <20050527120812.GA375@nietzsche.lynx.com> <429715DE.6030008@yahoo.com.au> <20050527233645.GA2283@nietzsche.lynx.com> <4297EB57.5090902@yahoo.com.au> <20050528054503.GA2958@nietzsche.lynx.com> <1117334933.11397.21.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1117339686_6734P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 00:08:06 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1570 Lines: 42 --==_Exmh_1117339686_6734P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Sat, 28 May 2005 20:58:23 MDT, Zwane Mwaikambo said: > On Sat, 28 May 2005, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 19:55 -0600, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > > > Media apps are actually not that commonplace as far as hard realtime > > > applications are concerned. > > > > Audio capture and playback always have a hard realtime constraint. That > > is, unless you don't mind your VoIP call sounding as crappy as a cell > > phone... > > It still doesn't mean that media apps are commonplace and who says cell > phones don't use RTOS' for their lower level software stacks? I'd be wildly surprised if media apps *were* commonplace on an operating system that didn't supply the needed scheduling infrastructure. That's as straw-man as commenting that applications that used more than 16 processors weren't commonplace on Linux before the scalability work that made it feasible to build systems with more than 2 CPUs.... --==_Exmh_1117339686_6734P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFCmUAmcC3lWbTT17ARAvZXAKDlKpo8x2Atsb2t4qUoHLpKUZS8rgCglz9S AmDAVRhdU9auXqAGzdyKBFI= =9Wa0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1117339686_6734P-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/