On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 03:32:02PM +0000, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: > Hi! Hello Jonathon- > How do the -rt patches match up against mainline and any security > fixes? For example, mainline LTS 4.9 is version 4.9.61, but 4.9-rt is > version 4.9.47. Yes, as of right now, the current 4.9-rt stable release is out of date, and is due for a refresh. All of the maintained stable-rt releases effectively have two upstreams: the upstream stable releases (4.9.61 as you've mentioned), which bring in bug fixes from mainline, and secondly the latest rt-devel development tree. RT specific bug fixes from the rt-devel tree are cherry-picked back to the relevant stable-rt releases. We acknowledge we're a bit behind, and are currently in the process of reshuffling around the stable-rt release work. > Is mainline 4.9.47 with -rt37 secure (etc.), or should the 4.9.47-rt37 > patch-set be applied against the latest mainline point-release? As Uwe mentioned, it's possible that you can just merge in the latest upstream 4.9.y release for your usecase. Otherwise, you can wait for us to kick out an updated release (hopefully soon). Thanks, Julia
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