Re: [LAU] >= 2.6.27 RT ETA?

On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 01:24 -0800, Ken Restivo wrote:
> And here is the next installment in the saga of trying to get Ingo RT
> going on my Asus EEE.
>
> I successfully built and ran the 2.6.26.8-rt12 with the alsa_seq patch. It ran.
>
> The problem is that neither the Ethernet (atl1e) or wireless (rt2860sta)
> work. So I pretty much had to reboot back out of it immediately.
>
> It appears that the atl1e driver I need to get my Ethernet working, is not
> supported AT ALL in 2.6.26. The Debian Lenny kernel 2.6.26 has some kind of
> backport of all kinds of stuff from 2.6.27, including the atl1e I need.
>
> I could try to reverse-engineer whatever it is that the Debian maintaners
> have done to get atl1e backported (it seems they've had to fix some bugs
> in the backported driver too), or, I could just try with 2.6.27 or higher
> and thus have the hardware support I need to make my netbook usable.
>
> Only problem is, it doesn't look like there is any such thing as a 2.6.27
> Ingo RT patch yet. His stuff stops at 2.6.26.
>
> So now what? Any idea as to when there might be a nice stable RT kernel
> cocktail of the 2.6.27 or higher variety? Or am I going to have to try to
> figure out what portions of the Debian Lenny patches I have to apply to my
> Ingo-patched 2.6.26.8 kernel, and then try to get them to apply cleanly?

This is apparently the future:

  http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0812.1/00529.html

More information here:

  http://lwn.net/Articles/311714/

I don't know what the current status of this tree is....
(anyone else knows?)

-- Fernando

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Received on Tue Jan 27 00:08:49 2009