Re: Audio - In kernel audio mixing

> On May 15, 2016, at 4:20 PM, David Holland wrote: > > Uh what? On essentially all architectures the kernel can tell which > programs use the FPU, and presumably if they use it the values in it > can't be allowed to randomly disappear. > > (In fact, the mechanism for

Re: Audio - In kernel audio mixing

> On most architectures, you can't use the FPU in the kernel at this time. Something that's lacking is a portable API that lets problem state programs tell the kernel they are using the FP etc. registers and need them preserved across context switches. This isn't just a UNIX problem. A