[Mageia-dev] Real Time Kernel version

Mon Sep 17 12:52:20 CEST 2012

Hi,
+
+On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Thomas Backlund <tmb at mageia.org> wrote:
+> 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.
+>>
+>
+> That's because upstream -rt project is only tracking -longterm kernels
+>
+> so currently 3.0, 3.2 and 3.4
+>
+> https://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
+>
+
+I see. That's interesting. I have some reading to do on this wiki. :-)
+
+>
+>> 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.
+
+That would be awesome. I checked the diff of the 3.5 kernel, and
+grep-ed for intuos 5 code, there does not seem to be *that* much.
+If ever you do it, a big big thank you!
+
+>
+>> 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....
+
+I see. If the desktop is a 3.7, I guess the rt would be at least
+3.5... hopefully.
+
+Anyway if you were to upgrade Mga2 to 3.4 with backported Intuos 5,
+that would already be the must-of. Intuos 5 has been out for like 6
+month, and most people on most distribution probably think that there
+is still no Linux support, whereas in fact it is already pretty well
+supported!
+I am playing with it since yesterday and that all works well until now.
+
+Thanks for the answer and the information.
+
+Jehan
+
+>
+> --
+> Thomas
+>
+>
+>
+>
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