2.6.23-rc8-rt1

2.6.23-rc8-rt1

[Steven Rostedt]

We are pleased to announce the 2.6.23-rc8-rt1 tree, which can be
downloaded from the new location:

 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/

Changes since 2.6.23-rc4-rt1

  - update to -rc8

  - A bunch of PowerPC stuff                    (Tony Breeds)
      - rearrange thread flags
      - count_active_rt_tasks fix
      - match __rw_yield declaration
      - unsigned long flags
      - removed flush_tlb_pending

  - alternate node alloc fix                    (Andi Kleen)

  - fix compiling of timer code in !PREEMPT_RT  (Andi Kleen)

  - convert i_alloc_sem to compat_rw_semaphore  (Steven Rostedt)

  - don't let RT rw_semaphores do non_owner     (Steven Rostedt)

  - kill the union in s_files                   (Peter Zijlstra)

  - Sched sum less than zero prevention         (Luis Claudio)

  - nmi_watchdog hpet                           (David Bahi)

  - call_rcu_bh rename                          (Steven Rostedt)

Work in progress (to be included soon):

  - CFS-scheduler updates
  - high res timers updates
  - PowerPC high res timers

to build a 2.6.23-rc8-rt1 tree, the following patches should be applied:

  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.22.tar.bz2
  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/patch-2.6.23-rc8.bz2
  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/patch-2.6.23-rc8-rt1.bz2

The broken out patches are also available.

-- Steve