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2024-10-02 12:00

Linux is now an RTOS!

PREEMPT_RT is mainline - What's next?


2023-11-12 12:00

Open Source License Obligations Checklists even better now

Import the checklists to other tools, create context diffs and merged lists


2023-03-01 12:00

Embedded Linux distributions

Results of the online "wish list"


2022-01-13 12:00

Phase #3 of OSADL project on OPC UA PubSub over TSN successfully completed

Another important milestone on the way to interoperable Open Source real-time Ethernet has been reached


2021-02-09 12:00

Open Source OPC UA PubSub over TSN project phase #3 launched

Letter of Intent with call for participation is now available



2006-09-20 17:42 Age: 18 Years

Linux 2.6.18

By: Thomas Gleixner

An important step towards providing real-time performance in the standard Linux kernel

As some of you might have already noticed, Linus Torvalds released
2.6.18 tonight.

Also the high resolution timer / dynamic tick patch set and the realtime
preemption patch set have been refactored to the new kernel release.

The forward port of the realtime patch set was quite complex, as 2.6.18
contains significant changes in the same areas due to the merge of the
lock dependency validator.

The detailed announce can be found here:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115876256226266&w=2

2.6.18-rt1 is likely to be subtly broken, so we need as much testing and
feedback as possible.

The patch is available from:
http://people.redhat.com/mingo/realtime-preempt/patch-2.6.18-rt1

Feedback, bugreports, patches either to the Linux kernel mailing list or
to this list are welcome.