Re: a joint letter on low latency and Linux

Gregory Maxwell (greg@linuxpower.cx)
Fri, 30 Jun 2000 13:51:14 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Paul Barton-Davis wrote:

[snip]
> There is also the problem that I've mentioned before: if we want to
> convince companies like Steinberg, Emagic and the rest to port their
> stuff to Linux (*), they need to know that "stock Linux" has the kind
> of performance characteristics that make this worth their while. They
> already operate in a very niche market, and the diversion of resources
> needed to do a port would be hard to justify when nobody but a person
> prepared to patch the kernel source and reinstall a kernel could use
> the result.
[snip]

This certantly underscores the need for not using RTlinux: I doubt anyone
here wants to run binary-only rtlinux programs.

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