On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Reuben Martin <reuben.m@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Back on Friday 04 July 2008, Mark Knecht was like: >> 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 > 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 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
