PREEMPT_RT patch on 85xx

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Apr 19 22:26:46 EST 2007


On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 14:11 +0200, Johan Borkhuis wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to run Ingo's PREEMPT_RT patch on an MVME3100 (PPC 8540). 
> But when I try to compile the kernel (version 2.6.20 with Motorola 
> MVME3100 patch and patch-2.6.20-rt8) I get compile errors. I did find an 
> extra patch-set for use with the powerpc architecture, but this set does 
> not fix the ppc-architecture.
> 
> Is there another patch available, or did I miss some configuration 
> option? Or is the PREEMPT_RT patch not (yet) available for the ppc 
> architecture?

arch/ppc is dying a slow death and is being replaced by arch/powerpc.
This is likely why there is no ppc "backport".

josh




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