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On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Reuben Martin  wrote:

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> Back on Friday 04 July 2008, Mark Knecht was like:

>> The question is whether rt-sources, as built from portage using the

>> overlay, is based on the vanilla kernel or based on gentoo-sources. I

>> believe it's built on the vanilla kernel or else we'd be picking which

>> version of the Gentoo kernel we want to add the patch set to. That's

>> not what the pro-audio overlay does. It's just patching

>> vanilla-sources. (If I'm wrong about this let me know but that's the

>> way it started.)

>>

>

> You can apply the rt patchset against both the vanilla or gentoo-sources.

> There is very little difference between the gentoo-sources and the vanilla

> kernel. The only thing added to gentoo-sources are patches to fix things on

> specific architectures (usually solaris) and a couple small insignificant

> drivers. That's it.

>

> I personally apply the rt patch set against the gentoo sources. Have for quite

> a while. No problems. (You will get two errors when applying the patchset.

> Both are trivial crap that doesn't matter. One for a set of brackets which

> aren't needed anyway where the framebuffer driver is added on, and another

> when it tries to change the name of the kernel which you can change yourself

> in the config menu if you want.)

>

> -Reuben

>

Reuben,

   So this fits my scenario exactly. Why apply the patch set against a

Gentoo kernel with useless patches if you can just do

emerge rt-sources
and get the vanilla kernel with the rt-patch set and no error

messages? What value do you get out of doing any of that work by hand?
- Mark

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