[linux-audio-user] Re: ingo molnar patch on mandriva's kernel

[Loki Davison]

On 2/16/06, Kevin Cosgrove <kevinc at doink.com> wrote:
>
> On 15 February 2006 at 13:24, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
>
> > Um, the -rt patch and the -ck patch are mutually exclusive.  You want
> > the -rt patch not the -ck patch.
> >
> > Why are you building your own kernel, there should be precompiled -rt
> > kernel packages for every distro by now.
>
> I'm running Mandrake 10.1 on my current music machine, and Mandriva
> 2006.0 on the machine I'll use for music in the future.  Those
> machines run Mandr* kernel versions 2.6.7-1.mm_3kc.7mdk-i686-up-4GB
> and 2.6.12-12mdksmp, respectively.  In the /boot/config* files of
> those machines I see this:
>
> 	CONFIG_SECURITY_REALTIME=m
>
> for some kernels, namely the "mm" optional kernels.  Is this enough
> to conclude that those kernels make use of the -rt patch?  If not,
> then I'm having one heck of a time finding -rt + Mandrake/Mandriva
> info on the web.  Any pointers would be appreciated.  For what it's
> worth, I'm getting pretty good music performance with ardour & jack
> on the 2.6.7 machine.  I haven't tried yet with the 2.6.12 machine.
>
> Is there a kernel version that begins to include the -rt patch by
> default?  If so, what's the oldest version like that?
>
> Thanks much...
>
> --
> Kevin

I use mandriva 2006 and a self compiled rt kernel. Though currently I
can't get the RT kernel to run well on my hardware (x86_64) so i'm
stuck with the MM kernels. I can get quite decent latency though.

Loki