On 4/17/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 4/16/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 09:24 +0000, carmen wrote: > > > nope, but ive never gotten the RT series to work without either > > > freezing/instant-rebooting right after grub passes off execution to > > > the kernel, or a kernel panic on some ACPI or similar issue during > > > bootup, or a random unprovoked hard freeze within about 5 to 15 > > > minutse after booting up. this is on several different machines, a > > > Sempron64, a Turion64, and an Athlon64, on VIA, MSI, and Shuttle > > > platforms. somehow Mark Knecht i think has claimed stable operation on > > > this architecture, so maybe you want to ask him his magical > > > combination of hardware / compiler / kernel / patch. > > > > > > > PLEASE, report these issues to Ingo and LKML! Bugs do not fix > > themselves... > > > > Lee > > Hi, > Sorry. I didn't read this thread due to the title but when my nam > pops up I figure I'd better find out what people are saying about me. > > I'm writing back on my AMD_64 here. It's certainly stable and > doesn't crash. I can forward a 2.6.15-rt18 .config file to someone. > (Carmen? email address please. Florian? Drop me a note if you want a > copy.) > > One note: Based on a comment Lee Revel made a few days ago, I think > on this list, about the standard kernel giving good realtime results I > built 2.6.16-gentoo-r2 on Saturday. It's now up two days with no > problems. I'm running at 128/2, and even 64/2 as shown below) in Jack > with no xruns so far although I've got a cold and am using it very > lightly right now. Anyway, I agree with Lee (so far!) that even the > current 2.6.16 series is giving much better performance than older > kernels even without Ingo's patches. IF it matters I use the > realtime-lsm module and not the othe PAM based stuff. > Can you send it my way too? I'm having a few issues getting newer kernels with ingo's patches to boot here. I'm running 2.6.12 now. Loki
