[PlanetCCRMANews] PlanetCCRMANews Digest, Vol 4, Issue 1

[Steve Tose]

...reposting as I sent from the wrong email address and would have to
await moderator approval from gmail...

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 3:00 PM,
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>   1. kernels and more kernels... (Fernando Lopez-Lezcano)
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> Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:38:18 +0200
> From: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
> Subject: [PlanetCCRMANews] kernels and more kernels...
> To: planetccrma at ccrma.Stanford.EDU, planetccrmanews at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
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> Hi all...
> This time presenting a new kernel for Fedora 8 (for now). It is in the
> planetcore-testing repository, and you will need to --allow-downgrade to
> install it if you have already installed a 2.6.25.x based rt kernel in
> fc8.
>
> The package name needed for the yum invocation is:
>  kernel-rt-2.6.24.7-1.rt14.3.fc8.ccrma
>
> Based on:
>
> - 2.6.24.7, latest bugfix release of the 24 series
> - Ingo's 2.6.24.7-rt14 realtime patch
> - Fedora's kernel-2.6.24.7-92 patches
> - MRG kernel iteration 62
>
> Shaken, not stirred... :-)
>
> 2.6.24.7-rt14 plus all patches that apply from the last Fedora 2.6.24.7
> based kernel (and some that I tweaked to apply), plus some extra build
> options borrowed from the MRG kernel configuration files.
>
> Seems to work fine for me in my laptop - better than the 2.6.25.x based
> kernels (no BUG's triggered so far). I intend to move it from testing to
> stable soon so any feedback would be appreciated.
>
> I could build a version for fc9 but I have not decided yet whether to
> adapt the spec file to the new conventions of the 2.6.25.x based fc9
> spec files or just build it as is. I would not be able to do any testing
> prior to releasing it as I don't have a fc9 machine available here...

I have a newly built FC9 machine and would be willing to help test
this kernel. If you take me up on it you may want me to rebuild as I
have installed quite a few packages including those from livna but I'm
fine with that. It's a Compaq nc6220 with a Pentium M and 1.5 GB ram
and a Soundblaster NX USB soundcard. I haven't yet used ccrma but have
been using jack etc. for a while now. I should probably look up
whether I would add you to my repos.d or reinstall anyway. I've been a
regular Linux user since FC2 and started with RH5 or Turbolinux back
in the day...basically I'd love to help you test a FC9 install and
could keep the machine clean for bugreports. Thanks for your efforts
either way and I'll certainly be trying out planetccrma soon!

Steve