Victor Yodaiken wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 02:48:11PM +0000, Zdenek Kabelac wrote: > > but I would really like to see this would be made by Victor or Michael. > > A patch to later versions of Linux (past 2.4.7) is easy, but we don't yet > see much point. > A) There is too much instability and changes in things that > need RTLinux changes (e.g. softirq) > B) There are incompatible Linus and Alan versions with > completely different memory management systems. > C) PowerPC is a horrible mess. > D) There is no clear advantage > So unless some of these change, we will continue to wait. > However, we would be happy to put later patches on the web site so that > the adventurous people can be adventurous.
You are right single cpu machines - but for SMP machines the linux kernel is broken in such a way the usualy newer version is always better then the previous version (with some minor exceptions) - also some of some likes ReiserFS, Ext3, AGP, DRI, EMU... I guess most of the people are interested in i386 platform so you wouldn't have to fight with ppc for now (at least from my point of view :)) I may send you my patches - for both 2.4.12 - or 2.4.10-ac10 - in both cases RTL seems to work - examples also work (though I've also slightly modified basic rtl distro) But the problem is - as you mention - softirqs - I would appreciate the help in this area (otherwice I would have to go too deep into the kernel sources) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [rtl] --- To unsubscribe: echo "unsubscribe rtl" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR echo "unsubscribe rtl <Your_email>" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For more information on Real-Time Linux see: http://www.rtlinux.org/
