From: Michael H. <ma...@ma...> - 2014-02-27 00:29:45
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Am 27.02.2014 um 00:55 schrieb Charles Steinkuehler <ch...@st...>: > On 2/26/2014 5:24 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: >> On 02/26/2014 03:59 PM, Michael Haberler wrote: >>> an RT-PREEMPT UB build of linuxCNC is Debian-compatible as far as >>> realtime kernels from the stock Debian package stream for >>> i386/amd64 go >> >> Yep i know about that one, but thanks. There's a Wheezy rt-preempt >> buildslave in the buildbot that's running that kernel, and it seems >> to be working well. >> >> I was disappointed to see that Debian does not ship an rt-preempt >> kernel for armhf... > > The ARM kernels are still too varied to really be packaged and released > by a generic distribution. With luck, there will begin to be a standard > armhf kernel that configures itself via device tree and works on most > popular ARM boards. right, that's the killer preventing distro kernel inclusion - the model distros follow is a minimal, mostly peripheral-agnostic kernel which relies on hardware autodetection and bus enumeration to pull in device drivers as needed unfortunately that autodetection prerequisite is still lacking in the ARM universe, and that is more detrimental than the actual RT patch or flavor -m |