Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 May 2005 10:41:50 -0500 | From | "K.R. Foley" <> | Subject | Re: RT patch acceptance |
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Nick Piggin wrote: > K.R. Foley wrote: > >> >> There are definitely those who would prefer to have the functionality, >> at least as an option, in the mainline kernel. The group that I contract >> for get heartburn about having to patch every kernel running on every >> development workstation and every production system. We need hard RT, >> but currently when we have to have hard RT we go with a different >> product. > > > Well, yes. There are lots of things Linux isn't suited for. > There are likewise a lot of patches that SGI would love to > get into the kernel so it runs better on their 500+ CPU > systems. My point was just that a new functionality/feature > doesn't by itself justify being included in the kernel.org > kernel.
Agreed. Maybe the Linux kernel can't be all things to all of us, even as configuration options. I am certainly not the one who is going to make that decision either. I just wanted voice my opinion from a user/developer perspective.
> >> Another thing that some of us want/need is a hard real-time >> Linux that doesn't create the segregation that most of these specialized >> products create. Currently there are damn few choices for real posix >> applications development with hard RT requirements running in a Unix >> environment. >> > > Maybe there are damn few because it is hard to get right within > the framework of a general posix environment. Or maybe its > because it has a comparatively small userbase (compared to say > mid/small servers and desktops). Which are neither completely > invalid reasons against its inclusion in Linux. > > But I want to be clear that I haven't read or thought about the > code in question too much, and I don't have any opinions on it > yet. So please nobody involve me in a flamewar about it :) > > Nick > >
And please don't misunderstand my statements as trying start a flamewar either. :-)
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