From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3FC30F17.1070904@imc-berlin.de> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 09:13:11 +0100 From: Steven Scholz MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marius Groeger Cc: Jaap-Jan Boor , "linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org" Subject: Re: Preemptive Kernel and MPC8xx ??? References: <3FC0A1D3.70706@imc-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hi, > On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Jaap-Jan Boor wrote: > >>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. >>(I both use the preempt and low-latency patches) Have you writting your own device drivers? How did you make them preemptable? Marius Groeger wrote: > AFAIK, you can pretty much drop the low-latency patch in favor of > using the lock-breaking patch. It is also available from Robert Love > at the cited home page. How about homemade device drivers when using the lock-breaking patch? Thanks! -- Steven Scholz imc Measurement & Control imc Meßsysteme GmbH Voltastr. 5 Voltastr. 5 13355 Berlin 13355 Berlin Germany Deutschland fon: +49 30 467090-0 Tel: 030 / 467090-0 fax: +49 30 4631576 fax: 030 / 4631576 ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/