Re: [LAU] >= 2.6.27 RT ETA?

Some information here, but I don't know how much this can tell us:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-rt.git;a=summary
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-rt.git;a=log
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-rt.git;a=tree

Hector

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
<nando@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> 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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