On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 20:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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. >
Well thats the point of a community project: release early, release often, that way ppl can help you fix problems. > 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. Wouldn't a patch to the kernel always be under the GPL license ? So where can ppl download the stable 2.4.16 kernel patch, or is the patch under a "kind of but not really GPL license" ? I checked the ftp.fsmlabs.com FTP site but apart from some year old tar files there wasn't much there, at least i wasn't able to find anything. > > 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. - Erwin > > ----- Forwarded message from Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > 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), > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from >"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" at Mar 29, 2002 07:15:10 PM > X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] > From: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Precedence: bulk > X-Mailing-List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > 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 > - > -- > --------------------------------------------------------- > Victor Yodaiken > Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux Company. > www.fsmlabs.com www.rtlinux.com > > -- [rtl] --- > To unsubscribe: > echo "unsubscribe rtl" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR > echo "unsubscribe rtl <Your_email>" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > For more information on Real-Time Linux see: > http://www.rtlinux.org/ >
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