Since the topic has come up a couple of times. Here's our current
policy:
New patches for GPL RTLinux can go into the "contributions"
directory with little screening.
Things go into our RTLinux distributions when we thing they are
stable, not before. Others are welcome to maintain more
cutting edge versions.
The 2.4 kernel is still shaky. Our commercial version went to
2.4 _way_ too early and with a huge effort we have stable 2.4.16
in the Pro tree. For the GPL tree, we have continued to hope
that 2.4 would stabilize and continued to post contributed patches
until that time.
We closely monitor and test Linux kernels. To see where
Linux 2.4 is right now, look at Alan Cox's message below. Note
the date.
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Subject: Re: Request for 2.4.20 to be a non-trivial-bugfixes-only version
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 18:42:17 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Cox),
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ruth Ivimey-Cook),
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"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" at Mar 29, 2002 07:15:10 PM
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From: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > point where on the hole the painting and bolt tightening is all that needs
> > doing. The 2.4 tree suffered serious earthquake damage in 2.4.10 which
> > hasn't entirely been fixed yet.
>
> Okay...ah...in this case: What, precisely, *is* the problem since 2.4.10 ?
Linus changed the VM and chunks of the block layer in 2.4.10, that set back
stability work very seriously. It was a mistake but it happened, and most
of the repair work is done now. Not all of it. We've also gained things like
file system direct I/O as a result, so long term it may pay off, even
though it should have gone into 2.5 for stabilizing first
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