-rt kernel support

[Luca Boccassi]

On Wed, 2017-08-02 at 03:30 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Hi Luca,
> 
> 384.xx re-adds the PREEMPT_RT sanity check. (upstream changelog:
> "Restored several sanity checks that were inadvertently removed from
> the
> kernel module build process in the 355.06 driver")
> We had disabled that check in 340.xx "since we had always disabled
> it",
> but I'm not sure whether that is actually a good idea if upstream
> says
> "this does not work". So I'm rather thinking about keeping that check
> (and excluding -rt kernels from being tested in build-module-
> packages.sh).
> There might have been reports from people saying that the nvidia
> driver
> worked for them on -rt kernels in the past.
> What do you think?
> 
> Andreas

Yeah I think it's better to follow upstream too.

I believe there are users on -rt, but I don't think it was on 340xx.
Might be wrong though.

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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