Enterprise realtime and cooperative development

Enterprise realtime and cooperative development

Posted Dec 5, 2007 23:52 UTC (Wed) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: Enterprise realtime and cooperative development by marduk
Parent article: Enterprise realtime and cooperative development

The analogy to the old Unix days is wrong, because in those days the extensions and forks were proprietary and incompletely documented.

What we're seeing now not going to break anything. Because all of the patches are GPL, we're seeing a constant process of forking and re-merging. Tools like git make this easier to manage. Right now both Red Hat and Novell have to provide extensive patches because the fundamental stuff isn't in the kernel, but this will change. As everyone gets more experience with this code based on actual deployment, it will be easier to get the upstream kernel to accept it, and the Linus kernel will get the hard real-time capabilities now seen only in vendor kernels.

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