[Mageia-dev] Real Time Kernel version

Mon Sep 17 10:16:50 CEST 2012

Jehan Pagès skrev 16.9.2012 21:20:
+> Hi,
+>
+> I have a question. Is there a reason why the Real Time version of the
+> kernel is always under the desktop version?
+> I just checked and installed both the last desktop kernel and rt
+> kernel from Cauldron here:
+> ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/distrib/cauldron/x86_64/media/core/release/
+> Kernel desktop is 3.5.3 but Real Time is 3.4.9.
+>
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+That's because upstream -rt project is only tracking -longterm kernels
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+so currently 3.0, 3.2 and 3.4
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+https://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
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+> My main problem is that the support of the Wacom Intuos 5 tablet
+> exists only since the Kernel 3.5. I just tested on Mageia 2 (normal
+> one, I only installed the new kernels from Cauldron). It works with
+> the desktop kernel 3.5.3, not with the 3.4.9 rt kernel.
+
+Well, Mga2 will get upgraded to 3.4 longterm kernel soon, so maybe
+we should look into backporting the Intuos 5 tablet support to
+3.4 series... then I could add it to the -rt kernel too.
+
+> So that would be nice to support a 3.5 real time kernel in Mageia 3. :-)
+
+Well, there is no decision what the release kernel for mga3 will be yet,
+but I assume something like 3.7-3.9... depending of upstream kernel.org 
+releases... and no idea what version -rt will support by then....
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+Thomas
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