15 Sep
2004
15 Sep
'04
12:39 a.m.
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 21:53, Russell Hanaghan wrote:
OK, great. Here's a link to the kernel patch:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/9/13/293
This should be much easier for a packager than downloading the
realtime-lsm tarball, as you can just patch the kernel and enable
realtime-lsm in Kconfig.
My goal is to have this in the kernel before Ingo's voluntary preemption
patches stabilize. Since audio users will probably have to apply Ingo's
patches to use 2.6 anyway, I would like to eliminate the extra patching
step. It would be nice to get this in 2.6.9 but I think 2.6.10 is more
realistic.
Also, Ingo is now posting the individual parts of the VP patches to LKML
for possible merging; the response has also been very good, as many real
kernel bugs were discovered while developing these. So it's quite
possible that by 2.6.10 audio users will only have to use a small kernel
patch, or none at all.
Lee
FWIW, I have
submitted realtime-lsm for inclusion in the mainstream 2.6
kernel, and so far the response has been positive. So, hopefully in the
near future there will be one less step to get a Linux 2.6 based audio
setup up and running.
Lee
I have mentioned this to the main developer and original author of this distro
www.yoper.com I am one of the "team" members there now and hope to help
bring that distro along as another good audio distro. They already use the
Con Kolivas patches and the kernel is quite "snappy". If you have any idea
when the realtime-lsm will realize as part of the 2.6 kernel, that would be
great. Otherwise, I will convince Aundreas to include it in his version of
the next release. Based on what I have told him from your posts here, he says
he has no problem including it.