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From: Mikhail Lodigin <mishal@softerra.com>
To: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Guidelines to make RT patch for driver
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:22:23 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F75DDBF.7050204@softerra.com> (raw)

Hello,
on my AT91SAM9263 based board RT patched kernel works great! Thanks to 
all involved. But when ethernet is in use - latency, measured by 
cyclictest, reach 7000000 and beyond.
The ethernet driver for this processor is macb.c. (in 3.2 it is in 
drivers/net/ethernet/cadence, in 3.0 it is in drivers/net/).
I'm ready to find out how to RT-patch it and of course share the 
resulted patch, but I need some starting point for patching drivers 
besides general RT-stuff.  I've noticed that some network drivers 
patched in one way and others a in another. Maybe some discussion 
existed which I didn't found. So any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Mikhail


             reply	other threads:[~2012-03-30 16:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-30 16:22 Mikhail Lodigin [this message]
2012-04-13  8:21 ` Guidelines to make RT patch for driver Thomas Gleixner

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