On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 01:24 -0800, Ken Restivo wrote:
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?
This is apparently the future:
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0812.1/00529.html
More information here:
http://lwn.net/Articles/311714/
I don't know what the current status of this tree is....
(anyone else knows?)
-- Fernando