4 Jul
2008
4 Jul
'08
10:55 p.m.
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Reuben Martin <reuben.m(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Back on Friday 04 July 2008, Mark Knecht was like:
Reuben,
So this fits my scenario exactly. Why apply the patch set against a
Gentoo kernel with useless patches if you can just do
emerge rt-sources
and get the vanilla kernel with the rt-patch set and no error
messages? What value do you get out of doing any of that work by hand?
- Mark
The question is whether rt-sources, as built from
portage using the
overlay, is based on the vanilla kernel or based on gentoo-sources. I
believe it's built on the vanilla kernel or else we'd be picking which
version of the Gentoo kernel we want to add the patch set to. That's
not what the pro-audio overlay does. It's just patching
vanilla-sources. (If I'm wrong about this let me know but that's the
way it started.)
You can apply the rt patchset against both the vanilla or gentoo-sources.
There is very little difference between the gentoo-sources and the vanilla
kernel. The only thing added to gentoo-sources are patches to fix things on
specific architectures (usually solaris) and a couple small insignificant
drivers. That's it.
I personally apply the rt patch set against the gentoo sources. Have for quite
a while. No problems. (You will get two errors when applying the patchset.
Both are trivial crap that doesn't matter. One for a set of brackets which
aren't needed anyway where the framebuffer driver is added on, and another
when it tries to change the name of the kernel which you can change yourself
in the config menu if you want.)
-Reuben