Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer, preempt, latency and cyclictest extension (request)

2022-02-24 Thread Julf
philippe_44 wrote: > What improvements do you precisely expect from that? I have a hard time > to draw any causality with sq Exactly my question as well. I hope it is not some audiophile folklore "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer, preempt, latency and cyclictest extension (request)

2022-02-24 Thread paul-
lol. Yes we are testing. piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM. Homepage: https://www.picoreplayer.org Please 'donate' (https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations=U7JHY5WYHCNRU=GB_code=USD=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG%2egif%3aNonHosted) if you like the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer, preempt, latency and cyclictest extension (request)

2022-02-24 Thread mcduman
paul- wrote: > We follow the RPi foundations kernels. They just released 5.15, which I > would imagine will be the standard kernel for most of this year. hi paul, us, repo-watchers, have started noticing kernel 5.15.21 and a 8.2.0b1 :cool:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer, preempt, latency and cyclictest extension (request)

2022-02-24 Thread philippe_44
zaurux wrote: > It seems that without using a realtime kernel, the preempt function > improves things. > In theory, from version 5.16, this feature improves and becomes "full" > (with a lower latency without using a realtime kernel). > I am not a specialist and able to produce exotic kernels

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer, preempt, latency and cyclictest extension (request)

2022-02-24 Thread zaurux
Thank you Paul for this complement. I thought piCore was keeping up with TinyCore which has moved to 5.15.10 with version 13. Hopefully the RPI foundation will be upgraded kernel to 5.16, faster than expected with the announce of mainline kernel support for PI compute 4.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer, preempt, latency and cyclictest extension (request)

2022-02-24 Thread paul-
zaurux wrote: > > > When will the 5.16 kernel be available in piCorePlayer ? :) > > We follow the RPi foundations kernels. They just released 5.15, which I would imagine will be the standard kernel for most of this year. piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer, preempt, latency and cyclictest extension (request)

2022-02-24 Thread Julf
zaurux wrote: > It seems that without using a realtime kernel, the preempt function > improves things. > In theory, from version 5.16, this feature improves and becomes "full" > (with a lower latency without using a realtime kernel). > I am not a specialist and able to produce exotic kernels