Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:42:25 +0100 (CET) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: Taking forward the realtime work |
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Maarten,
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> Hi all, > > After digging through the -rt patchset again I wanted to take it forward to > the current kernel, so far I didn't to get much work done as the code seems to > be kinda invasive, even with a lot of the things already in mainline. However > a lot of things in the -rt patch seem to no longer be needed, since softirqs > are merged, the BKL is gone, and there's a patch set out to make mm > preemptible. > > I've started testing from the mm-preempt patchset, and it seems to boot, but > now that I'm actually looking at the -rt patchset diff from v2.6.33.7 it's not > that trivial to port forward, so I'm looking for help. Blindly trying to apply > the diff forward 6 versions will not work, so I'm looking at how to add the > patches in such a way that each change is done in a logical order, in such a > way preferably that at each point the kernel is bootable. I understand that > for -rt there will be a few commits for which that won't be possible, but it > seems to me the amount of work needed to get -rt working isn't as big any more > as it used to be. > > Note: There's no guarantee I'll be able to pull it off, but there's this itch > I need to get rid of. ;)
Note: It would be nice to Cc those who are working on it and I can assure you that there will be an update to -rt in the foreseeable future.
Thanks,
tglx
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