* Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050118 16:22]: > On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 16:05 -0800, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > Currently supported timers are TSC and ACPI PM timer. Other > > timers should be easy to add. Both TSC and ACPI PM timer > > rely on the PIT timer for interrupts, so the maximum skip > > inbetween ticks is only few seconds at most. > > > > An interesting hack if your sound cards interval timer is supported and > can interrupt at high enough resolution (currently ymfpci, emu10k1 and > some ISA cards) would be to use it as the system timer. Who knows, it > might even be useful for games, music and AV stuff that clocks off the > sound card anyway. It would probably be easy, ALSA has a very clean > timer API.
Hmmm, that never occured to me, but sounds interesting. I wonder if the patch already removes some latencies, as the sound card interrupt triggers the timer interrupt as well? Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
