Subject: Re: Preemptive Kernel and MPC8xx ???

From: Steven Scholz <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 09:13:11 +0100

Hi,

> On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Jaap-Jan Boor wrote:
>
>>Yes I do on 2.4.20 and 2.4.22 from kernel.org. So far all seems
>>to work but didn't do any measurements on it.
>>(I both use the preempt and low-latency patches)
Have you writting your own device drivers?
How did you make them preemptable?

Marius Groeger wrote:
> AFAIK, you can pretty much drop the low-latency patch in favor of
> using the lock-breaking patch. It is also available from Robert Love
> at the cited home page.
How about homemade device drivers when using the lock-breaking patch?

Thanks!

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