To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Eric St-Laurent <ericstl34@sympatico.ca>,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       "K.R. Foley" <kr@cybsft.com>,
       Felipe Alfaro Solana <lkml@felipe-alfaro.com>,
       Daniel Schmitt <pnambic@unu.nu>, Mark_H_Johnson@raytheon.com,
       "P.O. Gaillard" <pierre-olivier.gaillard@fr.thalesgroup.com>,
       nando@ccrma.stanford.edu, luke@audioslack.com, free78@tin.it
Subject: Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-R0
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From: Free Ekanayaka <free@agnula.org>
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|--==> "LR" == Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> writes:

  LR> On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 03:05, Ingo Molnar wrote:
  >>another question - any objections against me rebasing the VP patch to
  >>the current -mm tree and keeping it there exclusively until all possible
  >>merges are done? It would probably quite some work to create a complete
  >>patch for the upstream or BK tree during that process, as small patches
  >>start to flow in the VP => -mm => BK direction. Would any of the regular
  >>VP users/testers be wary to use the -mm tree?
  >>

  LR> None here.  Assuming the SMP issues are resolved, then the only
  LR> remaining issues on UP will probably be with various drivers, those
  LR> fixes should apply just as easily to -mm as vanilla.

  LR> As far as I am concerned the VP patches are stable enough for the
  LR> audio-centric distros to start distributing VP kernel packages, these
  LR> will certainly be using the vanilla kernel.  I think the PlanetCCRMA and
  LR> AGNULA people are planning to start distributing test VP-kernel packages
  LR> as soon as the patches stabilize.  IIRC Nando is on vacation this week.

  LR> I will make an announcement on LAD that as of R0 the VP patches should
  LR> be stable and are ready for wider testing.  You may want to wait until
  LR> after the initial slew of bug reports before rebasing VP against MM.  I
  LR> suspect most of the problems with be driver specific, and most of the
  LR> fixes will apply equally to -mm and vanilla.

  LR> I have added Luke (AudioSlack), Free (AGNULA), and Nando (CCRMA) to the
  LR> cc: list.  They would be in the best position to answer your question.

Yes, you're right. We plan to  provide test 2.6.x  packages as soon as
patches stabilise. Please let me  know if you have some recommendation
(configuration flags, additional patches, etc.).

Cheers,

Free


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