Which is better for Wireless Network Support, 2.6 or 2.4?

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Fri Aug 11 08:04:46 EST 2006


On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 13:22 -0400, wei.li4 at elf.mcgill.ca wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am working on wireless data application via MPC875 host USB, is there 
> any difference to use Linux 2.6.x or Linux 2.4.x? Is it Linux 2.6 more 
> like RTOS? Thanks.
> 

Yes, absolutely.  Recent Linux 2.6 kernels (since 2.6.14 or so) have
much better RT performance if PREEMPT is enabled than any 2.4 kernel.

Lee




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