Including a low-latency kernel images in Debian for use with CDD DeMuDi.

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

Hi,

> > I'm ambivalent on this point.
> >
> > However, to build the CDD, it would be nice if the CDD can be built
> > completely from sources available within Debian.
> 
> As a humble user, I only vaguely understand all this business with realtime 
> capabilities and the security issues involved. Apart from the dependencies, 
> what would be the reasons for not including all DeMuDi packages including the 
> kernel in Debian? Surely it would be appropriate for a Custom Debian 
> Distribution to be installable from pure Debian sources.

Including low-latency kernel will require quite a bit of overhead
including making sure it builds and works on most architectures.  That
will mean I (or somebody else) will have to hack kernel on ppc and
amd64 architectures which are less tested for -RT trees.

I think it's something to discuss with debian-kernel guys.

What would be the implication of including kernel images of
low-latency kernel variation into Debian?

I'm Cc'ing debian-kernel for input.


regards,
	junichi
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