From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 20:17:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 20:17:45 -0400 Received: from svr-ganmtc-appserv-mgmt.ncf.coxexpress.com ([24.136.46.5]:15118 "EHLO svr-ganmtc-appserv-mgmt.ncf.coxexpress.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 20:17:40 -0400 Subject: [patch] 2.4: updated preemptable kernel From: Robert Love To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: kpreempt-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 09 Sep 2002 20:22:30 -0400 Message-Id: <1031617351.949.6.camel@phantasy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Updated fully preemptive kernel patches are available at: 2.4.19: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/preempt-kernel/v2.4/preempt-kernel-rml-2.4.19-2.patch 2.4.20-pre5: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/preempt-kernel/v2.4/preempt-kernel-rml-2.4.20-pre5-1.patch 2.4.20-pre5-ac4: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/preempt-kernel/v2.4/preempt-kernel-rml-2.4.20-pre5-ac4-1.patch and your favorite mirrors. These releases contain some of the recent fixes from 2.5. Note new design features of kernel preemption will most likely not be back-ported from 2.5; just fixes to the existing infrastructure. The above patches include fixes for the "preempting with interrupts disabled" bug as well as some other misc. issues. Note they are not per se in sync with 2.5 or each other yet... Enjoy, Robert Love