[olug] 3rd Party Kernel Patches

Daniel Pfile daniel at pfile.net
Thu Apr 17 18:58:31 UTC 2003


I haven't used it (I use the preempt patch with 2.4 on my machine + 
some wlan stuff), but, this looks neat:

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0201.0/0810.html

I think it'll be in 2.6/3.0 from my understanding.

-- Daniel

On Thursday, April 17, 2003, at 01:44 PM, Adam Haeder wrote:

> This topic comes up every once in a while, but I thought it might be 
> nice
> to revisit it.
>
> What 3rd-party kernel patches do you use? 2.4 has been out for quite a
> while, and there are quite a few options for patching it. The popular 
> ones
> seem to focus on desktop responsiveness. See:
>
> http://www.tech9.net/rml/linux/
> http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/
>
> I myself have had good results with rml's preemptible kernel patch 
> (made
> my dvds play MUCH smoother) and I'm interested in some of the ones on 
> Mr
> Kolivas' page as well.
>
> Anyone use any of these? Any recommendations/caveats?
>
> -- 
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