From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Uwe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= Subject: Re: realtime kernel for Debian Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 22:20:03 +0200 Message-ID: <20091002202003.GB30475@pengutronix.de> References: <49CF50D3.1080000@gmail.com> <49CFBDBE.5020408@gmail.com> <20090329185525.GB25154@pengutronix.de> <49CFC58D.4010803@gmail.com> <20090329195638.GA25453@pengutronix.de> <49DF05B6.6000603@gmail.com> <20090413195356.GA13942@pengutronix.de> <4A09CEBC.70207@gmail.com> <20090513093517.GA11278@pengutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Debian Developers , pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, 521893@bugs.debian.org To: Grammostola Rosea Return-path: Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([92.198.50.35]:45240 "EHLO metis.ext.pengutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756998AbZJBUUG (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Oct 2009 16:20:06 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090513093517.GA11278@pengutronix.de> Sender: linux-rt-users-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello, On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:35:17AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-K=F6nig wrote: > Hi, >=20 > >>> I was wondering about how far are we with implementing a RT kerne= l in=20 > >>> Debian... Some progress here? Would be nice. > >>> =20 > >> 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= =2Eg. > >> the first broken out patch consists usually of various bits from t= he > >> -tip tree that are (AFAIK) not all needed.) > >> > >> So just have some more patience. > >> > >> =20 > > How are things going? Just interest... > Hhhm, well, I spottet a problem. The thing is that linux-rt does man= y > 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-ker= nel > 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 te= am > isn't filled with enthusiasm when asked to add an rt variant. >=20 > 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 n= eeds > more work. OK, the vanilla-kernel + rt is done. See http://mid.gmane.org/20090926171218.GD13150@pengutronix.de for an announcment and=20 http://www.pengutronix.de/software/linux-rt/debian_en.html for the documentation how to install it. Best regards Uwe --=20 Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-K=F6nig = | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.= de/ | -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-user= s" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html