On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 09:19:29AM -0400, Tom Evans wrote: > Are there patches available for Alpha in the case that it does not? Not sure. I do not see a PREEMPT option in the config file on my alpha running Etch though, so I would suspect that it does not support preempt at this time. As for patches I have no idea. Looking at the kernel source I see preempt included only by: i386 mips parisc powerpc ppc x86_64 -- Len Sorensen