Ricardo . said : > Isn't the rt-patch already out? Just saw it on the kernel.org > server... > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/patch-2.6.29-rt3.bz2
02-Apr-2009! and rt3 is fresh :) Yes indeed, it's been out for a couple of weeks now, sorry didn't pay attention.... So I guess we'll try it soonish... > > Ricardo > > 2009/4/2 Aymeric Mansoux <[email protected]> > > Ricardo . said : > > But did you tested specifically the 2.6.26-8-rt16 kernel? > > yes. > > > > As 2.6.29 is > > almost out I don't think it's worth investing time on the 2.6.26 one, > but > I'm > > installing it at the Uni and am hoping it will not crash. > > yes yes, of course, we are waiting for an rt patch for 2.6.29 now. > Vanilla is already working very nicely. > > a. > > > > > > 2009/4/2 Aymeric Mansoux <[email protected]> > > > > Ricardo . said : > > > About the kernel thing, in case someone doesn't know > this > > site: > > > > > > http://www.osadl.org/ > > > Latest-Stable.latest-stable-realtime-linux.0.html > > > > > > I'm using it and all seems to be working perfectly. > > > > > > Ricardo > > > > Thanks Ricardo, > > While testing our 2.6.26 rt config (or other flavours), a few users > > (LAT mailing list) reported hard lockups. > > So we stuck with 2.6.24. > > > > 2.6.29 seems to be a winner though. > > > > > > > > > > > The side effect of this is that we cannot always pick the most > recent > > > > kernel, for example leek and potato has been release with 2.6.24 > and > > not > > > > 2.6.26 because the latest had really poor RT performances and > hard > > > > lockups in some cases, so we were waiting for 2.6.29, which has > been > > > > released recently to work on a new RT kernel for pure:dyne. In > the end, > > > > it's also our choice to provide something that will work > perfectly for > > > > fewer people, instead of something that will work poorly for > everyone. > > > > And maybe the overall distribution should reflect that as > well... > > > > > > > > --- > > > [email protected] > > > irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne > > > > --- > > [email protected] > > irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne > > > > > > > --- > > [email protected] > > irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne > > --- > [email protected] > irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne > > > --- > [email protected] > irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne --- [email protected] irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne
