Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-R0

[Free Ekanayaka <free@agnula.org>]

|--==> "LR" == Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> writes:

  LR> On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 03:50, Free Ekanayaka wrote:
  LR> As far as I am concerned the VP patches are stable enough for the
  LR> audio-centric distros to start distributing VP kernel packages, these
  LR> will certainly be using the vanilla kernel.  I think the PlanetCCRMA and
  LR> AGNULA people are planning to start distributing test VP-kernel packages
  LR> as soon as the patches stabilize.  IIRC Nando is on vacation this week.
  >>
  LR> I will make an announcement on LAD that as of R0 the VP patches should
  LR> be stable and are ready for wider testing.  You may want to wait until
  LR> after the initial slew of bug reports before rebasing VP against MM.  I
  LR> suspect most of the problems with be driver specific, and most of the
  LR> fixes will apply equally to -mm and vanilla.
  >>
  LR> I have added Luke (AudioSlack), Free (AGNULA), and Nando (CCRMA) to the
  LR> cc: list.  They would be in the best position to answer your question.
  >>
  >>Yes, you're right. We plan to  provide test 2.6.x  packages as soon as
  >>patches stabilise. Please let me  know if you have some recommendation
  >>(configuration flags, additional patches, etc.).
  >>

  LR> As of -R0 it's definitely stable on UP and SMP users are reporting the
  LR> same.  All known problems should be fixed, and there are no known
  LR> regressions.  You should probably post a UP version and have your users
  LR> test that before posting SMP packages, the latter are not quite as well
  LR> tested.

  LR> No other patches (ie various scheduler tweaks, CK) should be necessary,
  LR> and in fact are not recommended because they might mask latency issues
  LR> that we would rather fix.

  LR> I use Debian unstable which should be pretty close to AGNULA, and for
  LR> several weeks now I have been unable to produce an xrun in jack at 32
  LR> frames no matter what I throw at the machine.  I actually have not had
  LR> xrun debugging enabled in weeks because I don't get any xruns.

  LR> Any problems at this point are most likely going to involve less common
  LR> hardware, stuff the LKML testers don't have.

A/DeMuDi is based on  a sarge  snapshot (currently  17 July.. time  to
shift  forward!), plus some bits of  sid  (especially up to date audio
packages).

Which kernel tree are you using?

Have you built your kernel starting from the stock kernel-source-2.6.8
package along with the relevant debian patch?

Cheers,

Free