[LAU] pretty much frustrated about those rt-kernels!

Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com
Fri Jul 4 20:55:42 EDT 2008


On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Reuben Martin <reuben.m at gmail.com> wrote:
> Back on Friday 04 July 2008, Mark Knecht was like:
>> The question is whether rt-sources, as built from portage using the
>> overlay, is based on the vanilla kernel or based on gentoo-sources. I
>> believe it's built on the vanilla kernel or else we'd be picking which
>> version of the Gentoo kernel we want to add the patch set to. That's
>> not what the pro-audio overlay does. It's just patching
>> vanilla-sources. (If I'm wrong about this let me know but that's the
>> way it started.)
>>
>
> You can apply the rt patchset against both the vanilla or gentoo-sources.
> There is very little difference between the gentoo-sources and the vanilla
> kernel. The only thing added to gentoo-sources are patches to fix things on
> specific architectures (usually solaris) and a couple small insignificant
> drivers. That's it.
>
> I personally apply the rt patch set against the gentoo sources. Have for quite
> a while. No problems. (You will get two errors when applying the patchset.
> Both are trivial crap that doesn't matter. One for a set of brackets which
> aren't needed anyway where the framebuffer driver is added on, and another
> when it tries to change the name of the kernel which you can change yourself
> in the config menu if you want.)
>
> -Reuben
>
Reuben,
   So this fits my scenario exactly. Why apply the patch set against a
Gentoo kernel with useless patches if you can just do

emerge rt-sources

and get the vanilla kernel with the rt-patch set and no error
messages? What value do you get out of doing any of that work by hand?

- Mark



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