Re: realtime kernel for Debian

[Grammostola Rosea <rosea.grammostola@gmail.com>]

Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   
>>>> I was wondering about how far are we with implementing a RT kernel in 
>>>>  Debian... Some progress here? Would be nice.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> The patch I created that "fits" on Debian's vanilla kernel creates
>>> conflicts on the sources with the Debian patches.
>>> I hope to be able to clean that up by minimizing the -rt series (e.g.
>>> the first broken out patch consists usually of various bits from the
>>> -tip tree that are (AFAIK) not all needed.)
>>>
>>> So just have some more patience.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> How are things going? Just interest...
>>     
> Hhhm, well, I spottet a problem.  The thing is that linux-rt does many
> deep changes in the kernel and I won't be able to support the harder
> problems.  And upstream probably won't help because the Debian rt-kernel
> isn't a vanilla rt-kernel.  Moreover even the broken out rt-patch isn't
> nicely sorted (e.g. bisectable, some patches undo changes of other
> patches earier in the series etc. pp), so I fear the Debian kernel team
> isn't filled with enthusiasm when asked to add an rt variant.
>
> I already thought about packaging debian-kernel + rt for Debian and
> vanilla-kernel + rt for a non-Debian package repository such that it's
> easy for bug reporters to try out a vanilla kernel.  But that still needs
> more work.
>
> I currently investigate how the Debian kernel packages are created.  Any
> help is welcome.  Probably the first step will be to create a vanilla-rt
> package, but that wont be accepted to go into Debian main.
>
>   
Just trying to keep thinks a bit alive here ;)

How are things going Uwe?

Kind regards,

\r

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