[LAU] >= 2.6.27 RT ETA?

[Ken Restivo]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:51:47AM +0100, Cassiel wrote:
> Just a question, what's the need in running 2.6.27? is it for wireless usage
> only, ie. the rt2860sta module?
> 
> atl1e module IS in 2.6.26 and rt-13 patch works very well with this kernel
> release though there is no rt2860sta module, but if the "or" logical
> statement is valid.. :-)
> 

I think I may have found an answer. I do indeed need the rt2860sta driver which is different than the rt2860 driver. I also need the atl1e driver which is different from the atl1 driver.

However, it seems that the good Debian-EEE maintainers didn't weave those into their kernel tree, but instead made the source to the patches available as separate packages.

So, installing the rt2860-source and atl1e-source packages, then doing the m-a prepare and m-a a-i dance should, if the patches apply cleanly to an Ingo kernel, get me the drivers I need to get this thing running.

> 
> 2009/1/26 Ken Restivo <ken at restivo.org>
> 
> > And here is the next installment in the saga of trying to get Ingo RT going
> > on my Asus EEE.
> >
> > I successfully built and ran the 2.6.26.8-rt12 with the alsa_seq patch. It
> > ran.
> >
> > The problem is that neither the Ethernet (atl1e) or wireless (rt2860sta)
> > work. So I pretty much had to reboot back out of it immediately.
> >
> > It appears that the atl1e driver I need to get my Ethernet working, is not
> > supported AT ALL in 2.6.26. The Debian Lenny kernel 2.6.26 has some kind of
> > backport of all kinds of stuff from 2.6.27, including the atl1e I need.
> >
> > I could try to reverse-engineer whatever it is that the Debian maintaners
> > have done to get atl1e backported (it seems they've had to fix some bugs in
> > the backported driver too), or, I could just try with 2.6.27 or higher and
> > thus have the hardware support I need to make my netbook usable.
> >
> > Only problem is, it doesn't look like there is any such thing as a 2.6.27
> > Ingo RT patch yet. His stuff stops at 2.6.26.
> >
> > So now what? Any idea as to when there might be a nice stable RT kernel
> > cocktail of the 2.6.27 or higher variety? Or am I going to have to try to
> > figure out what portions of the Debian Lenny patches I have to apply to my
> > Ingo-patched 2.6.26.8 kernel, and then try to get them to apply cleanly?
> >