Re: When would be preempt_rt patchet available for 4.2 kernel

Re: When would be preempt_rt patchet available for 4.2 kernel

[Thomas Gleixner]

B1;2802;0cOn Wed, 9 Sep 2015, Manish Jaggi wrote:
> I am working on linux 4.2 kernel for our ARM64 platform.

That's lame. I'm working on linux 5.0 kernel for my new arch/zilchcore
platform.

> Can someone please tell when would be the preempt_rt patchset be
> available for 4.2

Once the 5.0 RT support for zilchcore is finished.

Thanks,

	tglx

Re: When would be preempt_rt patchet available for 4.2 kernel

[Albino B Neto]

2015-09-09 11:28 GMT-03:00 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>:
> B1;2802;0cOn Wed, 9 Sep 2015, Manish Jaggi wrote:
>> I am working on linux 4.2 kernel for our ARM64 platform.
>
> That's lame. I'm working on linux 5.0 kernel for my new arch/zilchcore
> platform.

linux 5.0 kernel ?

-- 
Albino B Neto
www.bino.us

Re: When would be preempt_rt patchet available for 4.2 kernel

[Jaggi, Manish]

__________________________________
>From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
>Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2015 7:58 PM
>To: Jaggi, Manish
>Cc: linux-rt-users; LKML
>Subject: Re: When would be preempt_rt patchet available for 4.2 kernel
>
>B1;2802;0cOn Wed, 9 Sep 2015, Manish Jaggi wrote:
>> I am working on linux 4.2 kernel for our ARM64 platform.
>
>That's lame. I'm working on linux 5.0 kernel for my new arch/zilchcore
>platform.
>
>> Can someone please tell when would be the preempt_rt patchset be
>> available for 4.2
>
>Once the 5.0 RT support for zilchcore is finished.
>
How can I help in forward porting of the patches on 4.2
>
>Thanks,
>
 >       tglx

Re: When would be preempt_rt patchet available for 4.2 kernel

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Mon, 14 Sep 2015, Jaggi, Manish wrote:
> >
> How can I help in forward porting of the patches on 4.2

I'm not going to support 4.2.  We switched to odd numbers due to 4.1
being a LTS kernel.

Thanks,

	tglx

Re: When would be preempt_rt patchet available for 4.2 kernel

[Daniel Vacek]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> I'm not going to support 4.2.  We switched to odd numbers due to 4.1
> being a LTS kernel.

That's odd.

--nX

Re: When would be preempt_rt patchet available for 4.2 kernel

[Mike Galbraith]

On Mon, 2015-09-14 at 19:11 +0200, Daniel Vacek wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> > I'm not going to support 4.2.  We switched to odd numbers due to 4.1
> > being a LTS kernel.
> 
> That's odd.

Not really.  Maintaining rt is hard work.  Try it, you'll see that it
can eat large piles of your free time.  There's nothing odd about people
wanting to invest some of their free time in.. oh, say having a life.

	-Mike

Re: When would be preempt_rt patchet available for 4.2 kernel

[Daniel Vacek]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 3:37 AM, Mike Galbraith
<umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-09-14 at 19:11 +0200, Daniel Vacek wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
>> > I'm not going to support 4.2.  We switched to odd numbers due to 4.1
>> > being a LTS kernel.
>>
>> That's odd.
>
> Not really.  Maintaining rt is hard work.  Try it, you'll see that it
> can eat large piles of your free time.  There's nothing odd about people
> wanting to invest some of their free time in.. oh, say having a life.

And what about your sense of humour, Mike? ;-)

--nX