Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux 2.6 Real Time Kernel | From | Daniel Walker <> | Date | 10 Oct 2004 10:29:38 -0700 |
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On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 05:21, John Richard Moser wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Sven-Thorsten Dietrich wrote: > | > | Announcing the availability of prototype real-time (RT) > | enhancements to the Linux 2.6 kernel. > | > | We will submit 3 additional emails following this one, containing > | the remaining 3 patches (of 4) inline, with their descriptions. > | > | Download: > | > | Patches against the Linux-2.6.9-rc3 kernel are available at: > | > | ftp://source.mvista.com/pub/realtime/Linux-2.6.9-rc3-RT_irqthreads.patch > | ftp://source.mvista.com/pub/realtime/Linux-2.6.9-rc3-RT_mutex.patch > | ftp://source.mvista.com/pub/realtime/Linux-2.6.9-rc3-RT_spinlock1.patch > | ftp://source.mvista.com/pub/realtime/Linux-2.6.9-rc3-RT_spinlock2.patch > | > | The patches are to be applied to the linux-2.6.9-rc3 kernel in the > | order listed above. > > Does any of this 'work' on x86_64 yet? I heard that Ingo's voluntary > pre-empt was x86 only and didn't work on amd64; this stuff's kinda new, > does it work outside x86 yet? > > I'd like to see what these kinds of things do. :)
No it's x86 only right now. The mutex is partly in assembly, and the IRQ threads that we are using are (both of them) x86 only.
Daniel Walker
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