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OSADL Seminar on Software Patents and Open Source Licensing

Listen to the experts and discuss with them the implications of software patents on Open Source licensing and vice versa.


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OSADL supports mainline real-time Linux on computer boards built with Intel's Atom/Poulsbo chips


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29.07.08 12:00

A new RTOS is born

Our latest and greatest Linux RT-Preempt (linux-2.6.24.7-rt17) is now our "Latest Stable".



"Latest Stable" - Quick RT-Preempt kernel installation instruction

  • Download kernel, unpack it, download patch, patch the kernel
cd /usr/src/kernels
wget www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.24.7.tar.bz2
tar -jxf linux-2.6.24.7.tar.bz2
mv linux-2.6.24.7 linux-2.6.24.7-rt21
cd linux-2.6.24.7-rt21
wget www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/patch-2.6.24.7-rt21.bz2
bzip2 -d patch-2.6.24.7-rt21.bz2
patch -p1 <patch-2.6.24.7-rt21
  • Configure the kernel, enable CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
  • Compile, link and install the kernel
make
make modules_install install
  • Reboot and select the new kernel

More detailed instruction

HOWTO

How to enable real-time capabilities of the mainline kernel including hints how to check the real-time capabilities of the newly compiled kernel is further explained here.

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