El lun, 20-06-2005 a las 06:12, Sampo Savolainen escribi?: > Quoting Christoph Eckert <mchristoph.eckert@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > We all would be glad if we didn't need to patch and recompile > > the kernel. BUt there's hope that we get realtime > > capabilities in the vanilla kernel soon. Let's stay tuned. > > You are a bit late actually. :) > > >From 2.6.12 changelog: > > "commit e43379f10b42194b8a6e1de342cfb44463c0f6da > Author: Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sun May 1 08:59:00 2005 -0700 > > [PATCH] nice and rt-prio rlimits > > Add a pair of rlimits for allowing non-root tasks to raise nice and rt > priorities. Defaults to traditional behavior. Originally written by > Chris Wright. > > The patch implements a simple rlimit ceiling for the RT (and nice) > priorities > a task can set. The rlimit defaults to 0, meaning no change in behavior by > default. A value of 50 means RT priority levels 1-50 are allowed. A > value of > 100 means all 99 privilege levels from 1 to 99 are allowed. CAP_SYS_NICE is > blanket permission. > > (akpm: see > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0503.1/1921.html for > tips on integrating this with PAM). > > Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx>" > > > Sampo Savolainen Does this means that I can download the kernel source, compile it without _any_ patch and have a "multimedia kernel" (aka a suitable kernel for doing realtime audio) in my machine? If so, damn, I'm downloading it! Cheers, Damian.- Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others. -- Groucho Marx
