Audio SIG - Jacklab spin

[Harald Hoyer]

Michal Schmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:40:26 +0200
> Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> Anyone interested in an audio SIG?
>>
>> We could create a jacklab like spin ( http://jacklab.org/ ) with
>> jackd as the main audio daemon.
> 
> Would the absence of a real-time kernel variant in Fedora be a problem
> for such a spin? Fedora kernel only has voluntary preemption enabled.
> All the audio-specialized distributions I've heard about ship with an
> RT-patched kernel.
> 
> Michal
> 

Absence is no "problem" on a modern desktop (my desktop :-) ), though a 
real-time kernel would definitely improve the latency for slower systems.

Maybe we could "maintain" a kernel-rt package or persuade our RHEL5 kernel team 
to provide a rt-kernel (with the benefit of more QA :) ).