Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 Feb 2003 22:52:04 -0800 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call |
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> > Dig through the mail logs and you'll see that I was completely against the > > preemption patch. I think it is a bad idea, if you want real time, use > > rt/linux, it solves the problem right. > > So your saying I need to switch to rt/linux to run games or an mp3 player?
It depends on the quality you want. If you want it to work without exception, yeah, I guess that is what I'm saying. People seem to be willing to put up with sloppy playback on a computer that they would freak out over if it happened on their TV. rt/linux will make your el cheapo laptop actually deliver what you need.
I think there has been a fair amount of discussion of this sort of stuff in the games world. Some game company got taken to task recently because even 2Ghz machines couldn't run their game properly. Makes me wonder if a real time system is what they need. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - 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/
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