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07.10.08 12:00
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.
05.10.08 12:00
Linux Drives Atom
OSADL supports mainline real-time Linux on computer boards built with Intel's Atom/Poulsbo chips
02.10.08 12:00
What have a model train, patents, Open Source and Java in common?
The famous model train patent story aka Jacobsen v. Katzer et al has reached a new level: Good news for Open Source
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.