hi... we are about a week in the merge window, and linus merged the force threaded irq handlers already. This means, that the most important feature of the -rt patches is now in mainline. we sould start testing it during the rc cycle, i think. (there will not be too many people turning force threaded handler on) i will try to write up somthing about kernel config and boot parameters once i have a kernel running in my kvm later this week. -- torben Hohn