realtime kernel for Debian

[rosea grammostola]

Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:35:17AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>>     
>>>>> I was wondering about how far are we with implementing a RT kernel in 
>>>>>  Debian... Some progress here? Would be nice.
>>>>>     
>>>>>           
>>>> The patch I created that "fits" on Debian's vanilla kernel creates
>>>> conflicts on the sources with the Debian patches.
>>>> I hope to be able to clean that up by minimizing the -rt series (e.g.
>>>> the first broken out patch consists usually of various bits from the
>>>> -tip tree that are (AFAIK) not all needed.)
>>>>
>>>> So just have some more patience.
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>> How are things going? Just interest...
>>>       
>> Hhhm, well, I spottet a problem.  The thing is that linux-rt does many
>> deep changes in the kernel and I won't be able to support the harder
>> problems.  And upstream probably won't help because the Debian rt-kernel
>> isn't a vanilla rt-kernel.  Moreover even the broken out rt-patch isn't
>> nicely sorted (e.g. bisectable, some patches undo changes of other
>> patches earier in the series etc. pp), so I fear the Debian kernel team
>> isn't filled with enthusiasm when asked to add an rt variant.
>>
>> I already thought about packaging debian-kernel + rt for Debian and
>> vanilla-kernel + rt for a non-Debian package repository such that it's
>> easy for bug reporters to try out a vanilla kernel.  But that still needs
>> more work.
>>     
> OK, the vanilla-kernel + rt is done.  See
>
> 	http://mid.gmane.org/20090926171218.GD13150@pengutronix.de
>
> for an announcment and 
>
> 	http://www.pengutronix.de/software/linux-rt/debian_en.html
>
> for the documentation how to install it.
Looks like this is great news! Thanks for your time and effort Uwe!

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