Re: 2.6.16-rt24 Won't Apply

["Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On 5/26/06, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 15:11 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> >
> > Ingo & (I think) Steven,
> >    -rt25 applies cleanly and boots fine on my AMD64 UMP machine.
>
> That's good to hear.  BTW, do you mean UP machine? or do you have a
> Uni-Multi-Processor machine :)

Darn - I did it again! Yes, UP, UP, UP. :-)
>
> >
> > mark@lightning ~ $ uname -a
> > Linux lightning 2.6.16-rt25 #1 PREEMPT Fri May 26 14:53:47 PDT 2006
> > x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ GNU/Linux
> > mark@lightning ~ $
> >
> >    Thanks to all for putting this fix together. I'm sorry I didn't do
> > much with the 2.6.16-rt series. I was so happy with 2.6.15-rt18 I
> > never moved forward. I promise to take a lot at 2.6.17 when that comes
> > along.
>
> Also, thanks a lot for the comment about 2.6.15-rt18.  If it ain't
> broken, don't fix it.  There's no reason for you to upgrade if what you
> have works.  If you just like to test our stuff, then that's great and
> we really do appreciate it.

True, but I think this problem has been in there since 2.6.16-rt1 so
we could have caught it earlier. That would have been good also.

Anyway, we all do our parts. Being a guitar player mine is small but fun! ;-)

>
> I've been working on embedded devices too much and haven't tested my
> x86_64 machine in a while either, I think the last I booted was in the
> 2.6.15-rt16 (that's the oldest in my /boot directory).  Heck, I was
> still running 2.6.15 plain.
>
> I happened to wipe out the flash drive on my embedded device and had to
> wait for the recovery CD iso to be sent to me (Germany happens to have
> some sort of Holiday, so no one was in the office).  So I remembered
> that people where having problems with x86_64 and -rt, so I spent the
> day finding out why.  It wasn't much of a patch, but boy was it hard to
> find.

And we appreciate both your efforts finding it and Ingo's fast
response to get it rolled into an rt patch so quickly.

Cheers,
Mark