Re: v2.6.20-rt1, yum/rpm

["K.R. Foley" <kr@cybsft.com>]

Chuck Harding wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
>> i have released the v2.6.20-rt1 kernel, which can be downloaded from the
>> usual place:
>>
>>  http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/
> 
> I find no patch-2.6.20-rt1 there. Is it somewhere else, perhaps?
> 
rt1 is now in older:
http://people.redhat.com/mingo/realtime-preempt/older/patch-2.6.20-rt1

However, looks like Ingo is up to rt4 now but there is no rt4 patch,
only RPMs? Ingo?

>>
>> 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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   kr