On Wednesday 23 May 2007, jaromil wrote:
> hi Farasha,
>
> On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 12:47:33AM +0000, Farasha Euker wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I noticed a 2.6.21 kernel on the dyne ftp site. I tried a couple of
> > things to make it work, but can't for the life of me seem to figure out
> > how to switch the stock 2.6.18 kernel with the updated one.
>
> i'm fixing up the packaging of kernels for dyne (core, modules and
> soures) in a compact and portable way, so we are quite close to the day
> you can switch kernels from some user interface.
>
> by now to switch a kernel you should edit grub to point to the new .krn
> file as well make sure that the .kmods file is in place inside the dyne/
> dock.
>
> anyway the 2.6.21-mm1-dyne is *just* experimental.
>
> that is a 2.6.21 kernel patched with Andrew Morton's collection of
> changes to linux (-mm) i compiled some days ago when experimenting with
> low latency and the ivysync software.
>
> as soon as i had this kernel working (but beware it has issues with
> jack) i thought it was worth to host it in the modules repository, which
> now i realize you are really monitoring closely eh :)

What are the differences and relative merits of the -mm patches vs Ingo's
realtime patches -rt which are propagated by Musix and others? I notice the
-mm patched kernel are available on the kernel archives but not the -rt.