Re: 2.6.14-rc3-rt1

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

Thanks Ingo. 2.6.14-rc2-rt7 on AMD64 has been working well for me the
last few days. (After finally getting it to build!) I expect that I'll
build 2.6.14-rc3-rt1 today.

Cheers,
Mark

On 10/2/05, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
> i have released the 2.6.14-rc3-rt1 tree, which can be downloaded from
> the usual place:
>
>   http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/
>
> the biggest change is the merge of the generic ARM-irq patches into the
> -rt tree, and a port of -rt to the ARM platform, by Thomas Gleixner and
> John Cooper.  There are also lots of updates and cleanups in the ktimer
> code.  Also, x64 should work again.  Plus smaller changes all around.
>
> Changes since 2.6.14-rc2-rt2:
>
>  - ARM-genirq code (Thomas Gleixner, me - testing by lots of people)
>
>  - latency tracing on ARM (John Cooper)
>
>  - port of -rt to ARM (Thomas Gleixner)
>
>  - lots of ktimer updates/cleanups (Thomas Gleixner)
>
>  - NTFS bit-spinlock fix (Eran Mann)
>
>  - gcc4 build fix (Daniel Walker)
>
>  - fix "No Forced Preemption (Server)" build problems
>    (reported by Mark Knecht)
>
>  - convert epca_lock to the new syntax (Daniel Walker)
>
>  - typo fix in latency-hist prototype (Clark Williams)
>
>  - netlink build fix (Eran Mann)
>
>  - dccp build fix (Eran Mann)
>
>  - x64 build fixes
>
>  - fix audit.c compilation error
>
>  - merge to 2.6.14-rc3
>
>  - cpufreq build fix
>
>  - pcmcia build fix
>
>  - XFS build fix
>
> to build a 2.6.14-rc3-rt1 tree, the following patches should be applied:
>
>   http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.13.tar.bz2
>   http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/patch-2.6.14-rc3.bz2
>   http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/patch-2.6.14-rc3-rt1
>
>         Ingo
>