Driver porting: the preemptible kernel

Posted Mar 30, 2003 17:27 UTC (Sun) by goatbar (guest, #10402)
Parent article: Driver porting: the preemptible kernel

I want to start off by saying how much I appreciate these series of articles. Thank you!

I haven't even come close to using 2.5 yet, but I have been using kernels >= 2.4.18 with the RML preempt patch. Is this patch the same or pretty close to the preemptible code in the 2.5.xx kernels?