[PlanetCCRMA] FC5 PlanetCCRMA and x86-64 Cpus

[Mark Knecht]

On 5/7/06, Jan Depner <eviltwin69@cableone.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 10:34 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 10:08 +0200, Michele Spinolo wrote:
> > > >> Now the question is: can I install FC5 x86-64 version and then install on
> > > >> the top of it PlanetCCRMA packages (which I suppose will be i386-i686
> > > >> versions)?
> > >
> > > > Not yet because I have not built kernel packages for x86_64. I do intend
> > > > to do that (ie: have an x86_64 version).
> > >
> > > Great!
> > > I'm going to install FC5 x86-64 then!:)
> >
> > I _intend_ to... it's not gonna be ready by tomorrow :-)
> > -- Fernando
> >
>
>     Any idea when you will be starting on this?  I've got an AMD64
> system but I'm running FC4 32 bit at the moment.  Since I have little or
> no recording planned in the near future I wouldn't mind trying that out.
> Also, do you have any information on rt patches or xruns using 64 bit
> systems?
>
Jan,
   As always take it with a grain of salt. Since 2.6.16-gentoo-r2 I'm
running my AMD64 machine xrun free, at least for light duty recording
and playback, without Ingo's patches. I still use realtime-lsm. I was
not able to do this with 2.6.15 kernels.

Cheers,
Mark