Re: LINUX/EMC Help

Don Hughes wrote:

> From: Don Hughes <pencad@...>
>
> Tim:
>
> My thanks to you , Fred, and Matt for posting that response. It is just
> the thing that I am looking for in helping me install the Linux O/S.
>
> Has anyone worked out a new kernel yet for 6.0? I am not a programmer by
> any sort of the word, but is there common code that can be used from
> version to version of Linux as the newer versions come out, that will
> allow us to just upgrade and not have to write a new kernel each time?

The big problem with the version compatibility is in the real time
patch. This alters the assembler and C source code for the kernel, and is
VERY intimately tied in to the specific versions source code line numbers.

I think there have been changes in the X-windows interface that is why
ther was the separate versions of EMC for 2.0.32 and 2.0.36 kernels.

You will still have to recompile the kernel on every Linux upgrade, to
install the real time patch. You won't have to get a new kernel for every
update to EMC.

Jon