10 Oct
2009
10 Oct
'09
3:45 p.m.
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 19:35 -1000, david wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
Some do, I think. In the case of Fedora AFAIK the reason is simply lack
of resources to maintain another, different, branch of the kernel. I
imagine it would be similar for other distros.
-- Fernando
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:26 PM, david
<gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
Cool, very god, I'll look into adding it to Gentoo when I try installing it.
Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:
Gentoo real-time kernels are in the pro-audio overlay. Not sure how up
to date they are. I think I'm running something like
rt-sources-2.6.29-something as the vanilla 2.6.30 kernel.org kernel
didn't seem to like my chipset. Go figure.... > I'm thinking of trying Gentoo on it,
it's supposed to be very very
> configurable and optimizable. The synth/effects laptop doesn't have a
> lot of memory and only a 2.8GHz Celeron. (Of course, someone on the list
> is using an EEEPC 1000 for the same purposes, so maybe the hardware
> shouldn't matter!)
>
AVLinux is my current platform; Sabayon is also very good (very polished
and reliable), and it is Gentoo-based. Haven't found a realtime kernel
for Sabayon or Gentoo yet.
I thought that was one of the Gentoo configuration
options? I know
there's someone on the list using Gentoo, maybe they know? Anyway, they are there, and...small rant... ;-)
;-)
Why in the heck does *anyone* complain about not finding rt-kernels?
The source is publicly available and it's very straight forward to
build kernel source once you get in the swing. There isn't any magic
to building the rt-kernel and truly it's no more difficult than
building the vanilla kernel if folks have done that.
end of small rant... ;-) ;-)
begin response to small rant ...
I have used Linux for quite a few years now (when did CorelLinux first
come out?) and AT&T UNIX before that. I'm a rather technical user. I
have NEVER compiled a kernel. *I've never had to.* So your
casually-mentioned-phrase "once you get in the swing" glosses over a
process that may be well beyond the comfort-zone or capability of many
Linux users. (My lovely Linux-using wife would be completely lost from
the start.)
I still don't understand why distros don't routinely include RT kernels
as an option in their repositories.