>From what I've read on the Mandrakeclub site, there is at least one preemptive kernel available at least semi-officially for 9.1. I think the multimedia kernel has the preempt patch, and there may be another one. They're either in the main distro or contribs, I'm not sure which.
Hope this helps! Hez On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 12:51, flacycads wrote: > Are we going to be able to get a 2.5.xx kernel compiled with Mandrake > 9.1? I gave up trying to compile a 2.5 kernel on 9.0, as apparently too many > needed items were missing and/or unavailable (not to mention I'm not exactly > an expert at this stuff). I figured with the newer glibc and gcc it may be > possible, but what else is needed? I guess an upgraded module-init-tools > according to what I've read, but will a new version exist OK on 9.1, and what > about automake and autoconfig- do we need newer versions of those too? Has > anybody done it yet? Basically, I'm ready to compile anything needed from > source, but before when I've tried this, I always ran into drastic versions > of dependency hell- to such an extent I was forced to give up. > > I managed to get 2.4.20 with the ck preemptive kernel patch to work > fine on 9.0, but can't find a ck or rml preemptive patch for 2.4.21 as yet, so > I thought 2.5.65 might be worth a try, as it is already preemptive. In my > case, the preemptive kernel gave a noticable performance boost. > Any advice is much appreciated. > > Thanks, > Robert Crawford > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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