[ag-automation] Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] 3.0-rt1

[Carsten Emde]

Dear subscribers of the ag-automation list,

the below forwarded email has excellent and important news: The initial 
version (rt1) of the PREEMPT_RT patch for Linux 3.0 is now available - 
less than 24 hours after the release of the related mainline kernel! 
That doesn't mean that it can go straight forward into production, but 
this patch is very stable and only has minor known issues. It probably 
is the most stable -rt1 we ever had. In the near future, we will upgrade 
most QA farm systems to this kernel to provide long-term stability and 
latency data. When stabilized, it will become our next "Latest Stable" 
real-time kernel. Some details with respect to the merge progress, to 
the size and to the components of this RT patch are given in a recent 
OSADL News Article -> 
https://www.osadl.org/Single-View.111+M5ed3759de21.0.html.

Let me take this opportunity - once again - to say thank you to Thomas 
Gleixner, Peter Zijlstra and all other contributors who are pushing the 
envelope to turn Linux into a hard real-time operating system. Your work 
is highly appreciated by all of us.

	-Carsten.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] 3.0-rt1
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 22:37:24 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
To: LKML <linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org>
CC: linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users at vger.kernel.org>

Dear RT Folks,

I'm pleased to announce the 3.0-rt1 release.

Changes versus 3.0-rc7-rt0:

   * Update to Linus final 3.0 release

   * RTC bugfixes (scheduled for mainline/stable)

   * Long standing (rt only) timer_list bug (see
     timers-avoid-the-base-null-optimization-on-rt.patch in the split
     out quilt queue)

   * Minor non exciting fixes all over the place

Known issues:

   * Some weird "console=..." commandline + config dependent
     interactions which have been not yet investigated down to their
     root cause. Result in a boot hang. YMMV

Patch against 3.0 can be found here:

 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/patch-3.0-rt1.patch.bz2

The split quilt queue is available at:

 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/patches-3.0-rt1.tar.bz2

Thanks,

	tglx