Hi Jeremy, 2010/9/30 Jeremy Jongepier <jer...@autostatic.com>: [...] > multimedia room with some Ubuntu machines). I've actually never seen a > -realtime kernel, what's the difference from -rt? -lowlatency doesn't
>From a technical point of view -rt and -realtime are the same kernel. A minor difference is that the -rt kernel offer the "really stable" and upstream official release 2.6.31 whereas -realtime offers the last official upstream release that is 2.6.33. But there are the same kernel (that is PREEMPT_RT). The main difference is the external support. In -rt I have tried to offer an usable system as like Ubuntu do (so I have worked on compatibility with closed video drivers for example like nvidia or fglrx) whereas with -realtime I don't enforce it at all. In less words: if you need of closed video drivers, external DKMS kernel modules, linux-backports-* you should probably start to use -lowlatency (when it will be available through Ubuntu repos). Instead if you really need of an real-time system you should avoid all above or trying to make those working alone. > cut it for me, like I said, I need the tasklet API the -rt kernel > provides so I can use rtirq. Probably you meant IRQ Threads. > Concerning support, it would be best if there were kernels for every > release simply because it would be a bummer if people would move away > from Ubuntu because of this. That require a lot of energy. If a lot of people will be available for help we could do it. Ciao, Alessio -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
