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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Is there really a reason to upgrade to fc4? I have fc3 right now and it's doing good.</font>
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-Michael Jackson<br>
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<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif"><b>Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU></b></font>
<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Sent by: planetccrmanews-admin@ccrma.Stanford.EDU</font>
<p><font size=1 face="sans-serif">05/04/2006 02:20 PM</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 11:43 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:<br>
> Hi all and thanks for the patience :-)<br>
[MUNCH]<br>
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So... same kernels are now available for fc4 in the "planetedge"<br>
repository (ie: add a line with planetedge instead of planetcore<br>
in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/planetccrma.list)<br>
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Then "apt-get update" and...<br>
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> To install the latest and greatest kernel:<br>
> apt-get install planetccrma-core-edge<br>
> or<br>
> apt-get install planetccrma-core-edge-smp<br>
> (for a multiprocessor kernel)<br>
> <br>
> This will get you (today) 2.6.16.9 plus Ingo Molnar's realtime<br>
> preemption patch 2.6.16-rt17 configured as PREEMPT_RT (the best option<br>
> but the most "bleeding edge"). This was all done on top of Fedora's<br>
> 1.2080 kernel - a pain because I had to tweak Ingo's patch a bit, and<br>
> hopefully that was done correctly. It should have the good side effect<br>
> of being closer to the configuration that Fedora chooses, that is,<br>
> should be a little bit more compatible with FC than plain vanilla<br>
> 2.6.16.x (as I used to do before). Remains to be seen how long I'll be<br>
> able to do this. One more difference (for gurus), I have built these<br>
> kernels with 4KSTACKS=n - there were a couple of stack overflows with<br>
> that on and the realtime preempt patch. <br>
> <br>
> A notch down in performance is:<br>
> apt-get install planetccrma-core<br>
> or<br>
> apt-get install planetccrma-core-smp<br>
> <br>
> That will get you the same thing as the previous one but with Ingo's<br>
> patch configured as PREEMPT_DESKTOP. It may help when PREEMPT_RT does<br>
> not work on your hardware. <br>
> <br>
> Both selections will bring in some additional goodies as usual. Those<br>
> include 1.0.11 final ALSA kernel modules, ALSA firmware, tools and oss<br>
> packages, the rtirq script that optimizes IRQ priorities for best<br>
> realtime sound performance and a patched PAM that will give you complete<br>
> access to SCHED_FIFO for best performance, and the ability to hang the<br>
> machine as well :-)<br>
> <br>
> Current kernels are named:<br>
> kernel-2.6.16-1.2080.13.rrt.rhfc4.ccrma.i686.rpm<br>
> for the PREEMPT_RT one, and<br>
> kernel-2.6.16-1.2080.13.rdt.rhfc4.ccrma.i686.rpm<br>
> for the PREEMPT_DESKTOP kernel<br>
> (and the smp and i586 variations as well)<br>
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Enjoy!<br>
-- Fernando<br>
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