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

[Loki Davison]

On 2/16/06, Loki Davison <loki.davison at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>

replying to myself..... you need to compile schedutils from source, no
package seems to exist.

Loki