From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grammostola Rosea Subject: Re: realtime kernel for Debian Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:28:57 +0200 Message-ID: <4A2793D9.308@gmail.com> 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; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Debian Developers , linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, 521893@bugs.debian.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Uwe_Kleine-K=F6nig?= Return-path: Received: from smtpq2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net ([212.54.34.165]:54226 "EHLO smtpq2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750885AbZFDJtM (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jun 2009 05:49:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090513093517.GA11278@pengutronix.de> Sender: linux-rt-users-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Uwe Kleine-K=F6nig wrote: > Hi, > > =20 >>>> I was wondering about how far are we with implementing a RT kernel= in=20 >>>> Debian... Some progress here? Would be nice. >>>> =20 >>>> =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.= g. >>> the first broken out patch consists usually of various bits from th= e >>> -tip tree that are (AFAIK) not all needed.) >>> >>> So just have some more patience. >>> >>> =20 >>> =20 >> How are things going? Just interest... >> =20 > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > =20 Just trying to keep thinks a bit alive here ;) How are things going Uwe? Kind regards, \r -- 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