We are pleased to announce the 2.6.23-rc8-rt1 tree, which can be

downloaded from the new location:
 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/
Changes since 2.6.23-rc4-rt1
  - update to -rc8
  - A bunch of PowerPC stuff                    (Tony Breeds)

      - rearrange thread flags

      - count_active_rt_tasks fix

      - match __rw_yield declaration

      - unsigned long flags

      - removed flush_tlb_pending
  - alternate node alloc fix                    (Andi Kleen)
  - fix compiling of timer code in !PREEMPT_RT  (Andi Kleen)
  - convert i_alloc_sem to compat_rw_semaphore  (Steven Rostedt)
  - don't let RT rw_semaphores do non_owner     (Steven Rostedt)
  - kill the union in s_files                   (Peter Zijlstra)
  - Sched sum less than zero prevention         (Luis Claudio)
  - nmi_watchdog hpet                           (David Bahi)
  - call_rcu_bh rename                          (Steven Rostedt)
Work in progress (to be included soon):
  - CFS-scheduler updates

  - high res timers updates

  - PowerPC high res timers
to build a 2.6.23-rc8-rt1 tree, the following patches should be applied:
  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.22.tar.bz2

  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/patch-2.6.23-rc8.bz2

  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/patch-2.6.23-rc8-rt1.bz2
The broken out patches are also available.
-- Steve
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