Hello, On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:35:17AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > 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. OK, the vanilla-kernel + rt is done. See http://mid.gmane.org/20090926171218.GD13150@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx for an announcment and http://www.pengutronix.de/software/linux-rt/debian_en.html for the documentation how to install it. 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
