Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268372AbUJJR3r (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Oct 2004 13:29:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268378AbUJJR3r (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Oct 2004 13:29:47 -0400 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([12.44.186.158]:758 "EHLO av.mvista.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268372AbUJJR3o (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Oct 2004 13:29:44 -0400 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux 2.6 Real Time Kernel From: Daniel Walker Reply-To: dwalker@mvista.com To: John Richard Moser Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Batyrshin , "Amakarov@Ru. Mvista. " Com , "Eugeny S. Mints" , "Ext-Rt-Dev@Mvista. Com" , New Zhang Haitao , "Yyang@Ch. Mvista. Com" In-Reply-To: <4169293B.3020502@comcast.net> References: <41677E4D.1030403@mvista.com> <4169293B.3020502@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: MontaVista Message-Id: <1097429376.17309.5.camel@dhcp153.mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-4) Date: 10 Oct 2004 10:29:38 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1514 Lines: 43 On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 05:21, John Richard Moser wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Sven-Thorsten Dietrich wrote: > | > | Announcing the availability of prototype real-time (RT) > | enhancements to the Linux 2.6 kernel. > | > | We will submit 3 additional emails following this one, containing > | the remaining 3 patches (of 4) inline, with their descriptions. > | > | Download: > | > | Patches against the Linux-2.6.9-rc3 kernel are available at: > | > | ftp://source.mvista.com/pub/realtime/Linux-2.6.9-rc3-RT_irqthreads.patch > | ftp://source.mvista.com/pub/realtime/Linux-2.6.9-rc3-RT_mutex.patch > | ftp://source.mvista.com/pub/realtime/Linux-2.6.9-rc3-RT_spinlock1.patch > | ftp://source.mvista.com/pub/realtime/Linux-2.6.9-rc3-RT_spinlock2.patch > | > | The patches are to be applied to the linux-2.6.9-rc3 kernel in the > | order listed above. > > Does any of this 'work' on x86_64 yet? I heard that Ingo's voluntary > pre-empt was x86 only and didn't work on amd64; this stuff's kinda new, > does it work outside x86 yet? > > I'd like to see what these kinds of things do. :) No it's x86 only right now. The mutex is partly in assembly, and the IRQ threads that we are using are (both of them) x86 only. Daniel Walker - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/