[LAU] gentoo pain

[Reuben Martin]

Yo, back on Friday 05 February 2010 james morris was all like:
> I've started trying to get a RT pre-empt system using Gentoo. It's
> painful. Spent most of my time so far just trying to boot a custom
> kernel which I had zero problems with in Debian.
> 
> Is the pro_audio overlay any good? does it have the latest s/w?

I've always just applied the patch by hand overtop of the default gentoo-
sources package.

> 
> Before I built a custom 2.6.31-rt20 kernel, I used the pro_audio overlay
> to get rt-sources which gave 2.6.16 which seems ancient.
> 
> Would anyone actually recommend gentoo for setting up an RT audio system?