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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Re: The obsolence of OSS, Was: big smiley
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:12:12 +0100
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At Wed, 25 Feb 2004 15:50:20 +0100,
Adam Tla/lka wrote:
> 
> > OSS cannot affect this in any way - its a function of the kernel
> > scheduler and not the audio device API.
> OK but we could have some kernel RT thread which is doing mixing
> or MIDI emulation.

if you start a thread, why it's needed to be a kernel thread at all?
besides, you cannot use MMX/SSE/etc in kernel threads, which you
wanted.


Takashi


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