Hi, >>> I was wondering about how far are we with implementing a RT kernel in >>> Debian... Some progress here? Would be nice. >>> >> The patch I created that "fits" on Debian's vanilla kernel creates >> conflicts on the sources with the Debian patches. >> I hope to be able to clean that up by minimizing the -rt series (e.g. >> the first broken out patch consists usually of various bits from the >> -tip tree that are (AFAIK) not all needed.) >> >> So just have some more patience. >> >> > How are things going? Just interest... Hhhm, well, I spottet a problem. The thing is that linux-rt does many deep changes in the kernel and I won't be able to support the harder problems. And upstream probably won't help because the Debian rt-kernel isn't a vanilla rt-kernel. Moreover even the broken out rt-patch isn't nicely sorted (e.g. bisectable, some patches undo changes of other patches earier in the series etc. pp), so I fear the Debian kernel team isn't filled with enthusiasm when asked to add an rt variant. I already thought about packaging debian-kernel + rt for Debian and vanilla-kernel + rt for a non-Debian package repository such that it's easy for bug reporters to try out a vanilla kernel. But that still needs more work. I currently investigate how the Debian kernel packages are created. Any help is welcome. Probably the first step will be to create a vanilla-rt package, but that wont be accepted to go into Debian main. Best regards Uwe -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-König | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
