[PlanetCCRMA] fwd: announce: v2.6.20-rt1 yum repository and kernel rpms

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 18:53 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> just fyi, perhaps you can use it as a base for future ccrma kernels?
> Although it is rather bleeding edge, but maybe some bits can be
> reused.

That's what I have been testing for quite a while. I have been meaning
to release it for the main Planet CCRMA kernel for fc6 for a while
(there is none yet). Probably this week, now that 2.6.20 final is out.
It has been quite stable for me in my limited tests. 

-- Fernando



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> 
> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> Subject: announce: v2.6.20-rt1 yum repository and kernel rpms
> To: fedora-devel-list@redhat.com
> Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 10:34:43 +0100
> 
> in case you are interested in really bleeding-edge kernel rpms for 
> fc7/fc6/fc5, i've created the -rt kernel yum repository, which provides 
> the -rt kernel in rpmized form for i686 and x86_64, updated 
> daily/bi-daily. The package is named 'kernel-rt' so it does not conflict 
> with the Fedora kernel package - you can always revert to the Fedora 
> kernel.
> 
> The -rt kernel has the following main features: it closely tracks Linus' 
> -git tree, has KVM, high-res timers, dynticks, fully preemptible kernel, 
> preempt-rcu, plus all the usual upstream stuff that the Fedora kernel 
> has enabled. (The yum repository pointers at the end of the 
> announcement.)
> 
> 	Ingo
> 
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> Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 07:56:36 +0100
> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: v2.6.20-rt1, yum/rpm
> Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org
> 
> i have released the v2.6.20-rt1 kernel, which can be downloaded from the 
> usual place:
> 
>   http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/
> 
> more info about the -rt patchset can be found in the RT wiki:
> 
>   http://rt.wiki.kernel.org
> 
> This is a fixes-only release. Since the -rt tree has been closely 
> tracking Linus' upstream kernel since -rc1, no new issues are expected - 
> please re-report if anything is still unfixed.
> 
> There are lots of changes relative to 2.6.19-rt6 (the last stable 
> release), but these are mostly fixes and other gradual improvements. KVM
> is now enabled in the yum kernel on both i686 and x86_64 (and has been
> enabled since around -rc1-rt1), the -rt tree tracks kvm-trunk (which is
> a bit fresher than upstream KVM) and has a few additional paravirt
> speedups implemented and enabled.
> 
> to build a 2.6.20-rt1 tree, the following patches should be applied:
> 
>   http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.20.tar.bz2
>   http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/patch-2.6.20-rt1
> 
> the -rt YUM repository for Fedora Core 6 and 5, for architectures i686 
> and x86_64 can be activated via:
> 
>    cd /etc/yum.repos.d
>    wget http://people.redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/rt.repo
> 
>    yum install kernel-rt.x86_64   # on x86_64
>    yum install kernel-rt          # on i686
> 
>    yum update kernel-rt           # refresh - or enable yum-updatesd
> 
> as usual, bugreports, fixes and suggestions are welcome,
> 
> 	Ingo
> 
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