Greetings,
I was having a conversation with someone the other day and was informed
that ztdummy is basically unnecessary in BSD and perhaps in more recent
linux kernels. Is this indeed the case? Would you need to run asterisk
at a realtime priority for this to work? Getting rid of the ztdummy
Based on the initial response, I should probably clarify what I'm asking.
I know that some applications, as asterisk is developed now, require a
zaptel timing source. However, is this requirement necessary? Would
certain platforms, if asterisk was written to accept it, be able to handle
Yes and no. Recent advances in Linux (RT patches, Hi-Res timers) that
are approaching a merge to the mainline kernel raise the possibility
that timing could be migrated to the core of Asterisk.
This would be great in my mind..
On the other hand, if you have a hardware timer, you might
