RE: was the real-time patch merged kernel main stream?

hi 

today just heard that redhat will deliver new linux MRGrelease (messaging,realtime,grid) this year
guess it also comes with redhat's realtime-patch?


-----Original Message-----
From: Harish Pillay [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 5:25 PM
To: ZHOU,JON (A-Singapore,ex1)
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Slugnet] was the real-time patch merged kernel main stream?

Jon -

Hi. Have you checked https://rt.wiki.kernel.org/?

> I remember on several years ago, both montavista and windriver provided the
> real-time patch(hard-realtime ? )
> nowadays, these paths has been merged with the kernel mainstream ?
> what's the situation of kernel regarding the real-time features?
> is it soft-realtime or hard-realtime?
> ps:from kernel 2.6 preempt kernel was introduced, but I don't think it is a
> true real-time (even it is not soft-time?)

A lot of the work is still ongoing and some vendors like Red Hat have
a RT kernel for customers who need it.  Not sure right now if the kernel
is hard-realtime.

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