On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:06 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 07:53:19PM +0200, Jussi Laako wrote: > >> Brokenness is that JACK is not interested on those sub-timers and the >> driver should allocate those only via corresponding ioctl() and give >> unlimited read access to the global timer value without failing early... > > If hpet services are available via the kernel (I assume in the > form of fine-grained sleep, usleep, timetouts, etc.) why should > Jack (or any app) use the HW timer directly ?
because we don't want to have to make a system call to get a high res timer value. JACK was written with the assumption that doing this is essentially free. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
