Re: rtlinux-2.2 - No hard Realtime Selector?

[Will Shackleford <shackle-at-cme.nist.gov>]

> Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 16:27:58 -0400 (EDT)
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> From: "Adriaan Pelzer" <llama-at-informsa.co.za>
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> Subject: rtlinux-2.2 - No hard Realtime Selector?
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> I'm busy compiling the rtlinux-2.2 prepatched kernel on RH 6.2. One problem
> though - there was no hard realtime support selector in the config tool. Is
> that a known bug, or should I start worrying? I switched from RH6.0 and
> RTL2.0.
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> Adriaan Pelzer
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I believe that rtlinux-2.2 just dropped the extra selector in the config 
options. If you patch in rtlinux-2.2 you can't choose not to enable it 
in the config tool. This is back to  the way the old rtlinux versions worked.

It was an intentional change not a bug.

-- Will


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