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Subject: Re: Preempt-RT patch for 2.6.25
From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
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On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 12:11 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 5 May 2008, Daniel Walker wrote:
> >
> > Download my tree .. It boots in my testing, and it's on 2.6.25 .. If it
> > doesn't boot for you, just bisect down to the offending patch.. While I
> > forward ported 2.6.24.4-rt4 to 2.6.25 I bisected several times finding
> > errors (which reduced debugging time considerably.).
> >
> 
> Daniel,
> 
> Thanks, but the bugs were caused by some of my backporting of other
> updates (percpu and ftrace). I have them fixed, but I'm also looking at
> rearranging the patch queue as well to get things ready for mainline.

You should review my tree, it is several steps closer to mainline that
the -rt version your working on. I did a lot of patch break-ups
(required for bisection, and makes for a cleaner tree) and re-arranging
patches. 

Bisection is also required for mainline integration ..

Daniel