Re: Question about the maintenance of OOT RT patches for LTS releases (v12.x and v18.x)

Hello,

just adding one datapoint here in case someone is wondering if there
are users out there? ;-)

Am Wed, Jun 24, 2026 at 08:14:51AM -0300 schrieb Luis Claudio R. Goncalves:
> I need to correct myself here, our local hero Daniel Wagner is maintaining
> the v6.12-rt version. Sorry for that :)

Good to know.  Thank you for maintaing it for v6.12. :-)

> Sebastian, just to make sure I understood your answer, then we don't need
> to keep the OOT patches up-to-date for v6.18-rt specifically? My question
> came from comments raised on the last two RT maintainers meetings and the
> LF RT Board meeting. I just want to have a good answer if somebody else
> asks about that. And to volunteer if work is needed.

We still use v6.12 LTS with PREEMPT_RT on arm32 (at91),
and plan to use PREEMPT_RT on at91 (sam9x60, sama5d2) in the future.

If there are no regular patches for v6.18 we will probably skip that
and use the LTS coming later this year.

Greets
Alex