Re: [LAU] disadvantages of a realtime kernel

Hi you all, I can't understand that: "[...] So, why hassle around and make a realtime kernel available in the repositories if Debian can work on making other security and stability related issues better?" what's the relationship between (realtime) and (security or stability)? If you plan to use a realtime kernel surely you do not want to boot it on a production server (my belief). To me applying an RT patch implies you want to stress your box to achieve extremely low latency paying a certain price in terms of "stability" for other non-audio appz. Platforms: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/ these are the offical Ingo Molnar RT patches, never saw platform related ones and never read about they will ever be Hardware: RT patches add features to the kernel and without touching the rest of the code, so an RT kernel supports the same hardware of a generic one. Disadvantages: compile an unbootable or nonworking kernel is a little bit simpler :-) cheers r 2008/11/27 Grammostola Rosea <rosea.grammostola(a)gmail.com>