Real-Time "PREEMPT_RT" Support Merged For Linux 6.12

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Real-Time "PREEMPT_RT" Support Merged For Linux 6.12

After many years in the making, it finally was merged overnight... The real-time "PREEMPT_RT" kernel support was merged a few hours ago into Linux Git for this year's Linux 6.12 kernel!..

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.12-Does-Real-Time

[davidbepo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ALwKeSEYs

[cthart]

7.0 ?

[davidbepo]

7.0 ?

nah, linus not based enough to use semver
it'll likely be 6.20 -> 7.0

[cthart]

nah, linus not based enough to use semver
it'll likely be 6.20 -> 7.0

He should figure out how many releases he has done (n), and call it n+1.

[mppix]

Woha.. this is huge.

Does anyone know if the open source Nvidia driver is compatible with PREEMPT_RT? The proprietary one was not..

Thanks

[Danny3]

If NTSYNC would be merged too, this would be the perfect kernel release since it's also a LTS one!

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

Awesome. Sometimes there's little that excites me personally about a new kernel release, but between this and sched_ext, 6.12 is looking really fun to tinker with. All the better that these things made it in if 6.12 is the next LTS, and great that things like Lunar Lake and BattleMage GPU support got enabled by default too.

[Gamer1227]

We got RT Linux kernel before production ready GNU hurd. Lol.

[ernstp]

Woha.. this is huge.

Does anyone know if the open source Nvidia driver is compatible with PREEMPT_RT? The proprietary one was not..

Thanks

Hmm Ubuntu is shipping a Preempt kernel for desktop with the PREEMPT_RT patches, but I guess the preempt model they're using is only PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY and not the full stuff.