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From: john cooper <john.cooper@third-harmonic.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>,
	linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	john cooper <john.cooper@third-harmonic.com>
Subject: Re: rt-preempt: problem compiling rt-preempt 2.6.23.1-rt11 on MIPS
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:24:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <473BADD4.5030400@third-harmonic.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0711150143220.3265@localhost.localdomain>

Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> I fear you are the one who is in charge to get mips working again :)
> But as always, there are bad news and good news:  As far as I heard
> last week John Cooper is looking into this as well.

I'm not actively working on it but AFAIK I may have been
the last one to touch it when I did the mips version back
at Timesys.  Although I was able to get a functional port
of the work there were gremlins I never had sufficient
time to address.  That is a relatively minor issue.

The more daunting problem stems from limitations in the MIPS
ABI which makes the latency trace support problematic.
Rather than rehash the issue:

     http://lists.linuxcoding.com/kernel/2005-q4/msg10163.html

Until we have a usable instrumentation solution in place,
characterization, debug, and support of PREEMPT_RT for MIPS
is going to be a challenge.

-john

-- 
john.cooper@third-harmonic.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-15  2:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-15  0:15 rt-preempt: problem compiling rt-preempt 2.6.23.1-rt11 on MIPS Tim Bird
2007-11-15  0:56 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-11-15  1:06   ` Steven Rostedt
2007-11-15  1:20     ` Tim Bird
2007-11-15  1:27       ` Steven Rostedt
2007-11-15  2:24   ` john cooper [this message]
2007-11-15 23:31     ` MIPS RT debug support Tim Bird
2007-11-16  1:00       ` Steven Rostedt
2007-11-16  1:55         ` john cooper
2007-11-16  2:25           ` Steven Rostedt
2007-11-16 11:56             ` john cooper

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