[LAD] Kernel Opinions: .31-rt or .33-rt?

[Ralf Mardorf]

Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, torbenh wrote:
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>> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:27:07AM -0500, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
>>>
>>> Does anyone out there have an opinion on linux kernel 2.6.31-rt vs.
>>> 2.6.33-rt for audio?
>>
>> i am in the process of updating.
>> had some problems with udev not creating device nodes for my HD
>> partitions.
>
> IDE, SCSI, or both?
>
>> i think i solved them. (didnt reboot yet)
>> make sure the deprecated sysfs interface is off.
>>
>> CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
>
> Thanks for the tip.
>
> FWIW, I built 2.6.33.2-rt13 by tweaking the current 
> Debian/experimental build system.  So far it's been working fine for 
> me on two different Ubuntu-based, 32-bit, x86 systems.
>
> Things I've noticed:
>
>   * The fan seems to run less often (good, it was
>     running too often before).
>
>   * 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' doesn't show the actual current
>     clock speed without loading in some other modules.
>
> I haven't put it through its paces on RT audio, yet.
>
> -gabriel

For .31-rt I never noticed that the fan ever was audible for my adm64.

spinymouse-sudo at 64studio:~$ uname -a
Linux 64studio 2.6.31.12-rt20 #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Sun Feb 7 13:55:55 CET 
2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
spinymouse-sudo at 64studio:~$ hwinfo --cpu | grep Model
  Model: 15.107.2 "AMD Athlon(tm) X2 Dual Core Processor BE-2350"