On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 09:01, Steven Scholz wrote: > Hi, > > >> is somebody actually using the preemptive kernel patches ... > >> > > Yes I do on 2.4.20 and 2.4.22 from kernel.org. So far all seems > > to work but didn't do any measurements on it. > So you're using vanilla 2.4.22 on your MPC8xx board!?
yes, am I stupid? Currently I use smc uart, scc ethernet and a modified cpm_spi driver (from the great Denx) with interrupt handling, my 850 board boots ok from nfsroot > > > (I both use the preempt and low-latency patches) > Sound interessting. > Could you please give me a link to find the mentioned "low-latency patches". it comes from Andrew Morton's page http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/schedlat.html I you have to enable this by hand in arch/ppc/config.in (look at arch/i386/config.in) with bool 'Low latency scheduling' CONFIG_LOLAT dep_bool 'Control low latency with sysctl' CONFIG_LOLAT_SYSCTL $CONFIG_LOLAT > > Thanks, > > Steven ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
