[64studio-devel] Re: 0.9.5 is out

[Free Ekanayaka]

|--==> Lee Revell writes:

  LR> On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 02:11 +0200, joel silvestre wrote:
  >>Hi,
  >>The new 2.6.18 kernel doesn't boot on my Intel core duo laptop.
  >>So I reinstall 64studio 0.94 and upgrade to 0.95 from the CD with
  >>synaptic.
  >>Is it a good or a bad idea?
  >>
  >>Jackd -V returns 0.100.0 and synaptic says 0.101.1-1.64studio is
  >>installed. Where is the truth?
  >>
  >>Are the 2.6.18 kernel sources available? I think the kernel hang because
  >>of the timer. Disabling both hpet and hrt should help as it does for a
  >>vanilla 2.6.18-rt7.

  LR> Does the 0.9.5 kernel enable high res timers?  I don't think it should.
  LR> It's too new and experimental a feature.

>
> Does the 0.9.5 kernel enable high res timers?  I don't think it should.
> It's too new and experimental a feature.
>

If you mean CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS, then it is not set in the 2.6.18 kernel
which comes with 0.9.5.

However CONFIG_HZ is set to 1000, instead of the default 250. I´m not sure
if it matters.

The 2.6.18 kernel shipped in the 0.9.5 diverges from the stock Debian one
for

1) bootsplash and realtime-lsm patch applied (should be really harmless)
2) realtime-preempt applied
3) the config is slightly change, here are the additional entries wrt
   to the stock Debian kernel

http://www.64studio.com/browser/linux-2.6/tags/2.6.18-2/subarch-amd64-multimedia.patch

   (see the debian/arch/amd64/multimedia/config stanza)

Ciao,

Free