Re: [ANNOUNCE] 2.6.29.6-rt23

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
2009-07-10T18:12:32Z

On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 20:25 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> We are pleased to announce the next update to our new preempt-rt
> series.
>
> - update to 2.6.29.6
>
> - compile fixes (Wu Zhangjin)
>
> - powerpc highmem fix
>
> - hwlat smp_processor_id() fix (Carsten)
>
> - ktime_get* speedups (Martin)

I'm getting slightly weird behavior from rt23 in an intel quad core
machine (my T61 laptop is fine), rt22 was fine. It is some timer issue,
if I type continuously I get (every few seconds) repeated keys. Nothing
in the logs, nothing in dmesg that is (significantly) different from an
rt22 boot.

-- Fernando

> Download locations:
>
> http://rt.et.redhat.com/download/
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/
>
> Information on the RT patch can be found at:
>
> http://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
>
> to build the 2.6.29.6-rt23 tree, the following patches should be
> applied:
>
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.29.6.tar.bz2
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/patch-2.6.29.6-rt22.bz2
>
> The broken out patches are also available at the same download
> locations.
>
> Enjoy !
>
> tglx
>
> P.S.: 30-rt is coming close and runs the final tests right now