[LAU] RT patch not needed for new kernels (?)

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 07:21 +0100, hermann meyer wrote:
> there is a patch for 2.6.27 avaluable here:
> 
> http://opensource1.windriver.com/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=people/paulg/rt/patches
> 
> I dont have test them for now I stay with 2.6.25.9-rt7

I tried that one a couple of weeks ago and I never got a bootable kernel
out of it (I don't see any substantial differences in the newer version,
just some fixes to nrpages that I had to apply separately to get it to
build). 

-- Fernando


> Am Donnerstag, den 27.11.2008, 16:56 +1100 schrieb porl sheean:
> > i haven't had any real problems with 2.6.26 RT patches, but i don't
> > use my midi gear in linux (waiting for ardour 3 branch to mature a bit
> > more first). is there any reason the 2.6.26 patch hasn't been ported
> > forward to 2.6.27? are the changes that prominent that the patch is
> > too difficult to port? i remember the last few releases (24, 25 and
> > 26) didn't take too long before a (albeit preliminary) patch was
> > available, but i have found nothing at all for 27. i'd like to update
> > this machine to intrepid but i want to make sure i'm not going
> > backwards in terms of rt support (i know i can use the older kernel
> > i'm using now, but it kinda defeats the purpose of upgrading then). i
> > noticed there is a 2.6.27-rt package in intrepid actually, what is
> > this if the rt patches aren't available yet?
> > 
> > sorry to ramble
> > 
> > porl
> > 
> > 2008/11/27  <torbenh at gmx.de>:
> > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 03:45:45PM -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > >>
> > >> In both cases you will need a working Jack and you will need to run it
> > >> with realtime priority (which has nothing to do with the realtime
> > >> preemption patches).
> > >
> > > the rumor i am concerned about, is, that you need an RT kernel to run
> > > jackd.
> > >
> > > can people stop saying this please ?
> > >
> > > --
> > > torben Hohn
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> > >
> > 
> > 
> > 
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