On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:08 AM, jordan <triplesquarednine@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Gautam, > >> The above page provides the instruction in a step by step manner, but I >> distinctly recall that Ingo Molnar used to have some place a set of >> instruction that were "yum" based and it seemed like it was just a couple >> of commands to build a new RT kernel. Are these still available anywhere? > > Correct me if im wrong, but wouldn't you be required to either A: be > using a repository that has packaged rt-kernels, > or B: have the RPMs for the rt-kernel locally, on your machine....? > (to use the yum or rpm methods). > >> There is the link below, but it appears to be > 3 years old and itself >> points to some broken links. >> >> http://wiki.bestpractical.com/view/RPMInstall >> >> It would be nice to have something like "yum install rt ..." to get the >> latest version of RT kernel build. > > Ubuntu does something like that. But, it wont give you the latest, > just what is available. IF you want the latest get the sources.....I > don't use Ubuntu, as i use Fedora. But when i did try ubuntu with a > "stock" rt-kernel from the repo, it wasn't all that great. > > * don't you think it is fairly simple task to just get kernel > sources, use the corresponding rt-patch for the given kernel, and then > just compile it? If you have never done this before, it is actually > quite simple once you go through it, once or twice. It also has some > advantages, i have always had better quality kernels when i tune and > compile them myself.... > > Then you could also strip away all of the modules, that your machine > wont need, that would be built into a more generic kernel, available > in a repo. > > You could also optimize your kernel further, disable features that you > dont need. maybe compile the kernel specifically for your cpu... > > Patching the kernel is not hard, nor is compiling it, nor optimizing it. You think that optimizing it is easy? > > I know for myself, even if i could just install an rt-kernel using > yum, i probably wouldn't. > It wouldn't be as good as doing it myself. > > just my opinions > There is something called Planet CCRMA, which is a set of repositories for audio packages that run on RedHat, Fedora and CentOS. They also package the real-time kernel in rpm form. However, it is rather out of date. If you can compile your own kernel that would be the preferred option, but if you don't know how and still want to try out the real-time kernel then you can fetch it from there. Here is the link http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/ Have fun. -- 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
