I hope this won't be too much of a surprise to anyone. Thomas Gleixner stated last year, and then again in July <http://lwn.net/Articles/604632/> that the PREEMPT_RT developers did not have customers paying for that work. At this point all the developers have moved to working on other things. This was reiterated at last week's meetings related to RT: <https://lwn.net/Articles/617140/>. There is not, and probably won't ever be, a usable 3.16-rt branch. It seems possible that the ending of regular -rt branches might prompt more users to pay for ongoing development. However this is far from certain, and it will be too late for Debian 8. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. - Harrison
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