As some of you may be aware, I’ve been building kernels for Eskimo’s servers and for my own workstation tickless for some time and making them available to the general public.  Until now I have not made realtime kernels available because building realtime used to conflict with virtual machines, virtual GPUs, and some other generally useful features.

     When the realtime kernel was first integrated into the mainline kernel, UHD630 Intel graphics did not work and since that is what I have on my workstation I did not pursue it.  However, it is now working as are virtual machines under a realtime kernel. I have not yet tested virtual gpu passthru so I do not know if it is working at present but it is such a rare use case I felt it worth while to make this available regardless.

     You can download these kernels from https://www.eskimo.com/kernel/, or by ftp at ftp://ftp.eskimo.com://pub/kernel/, chose the appropriate version (usually only the most current) and the flavor client, server, or realtime.  Then if you have a debian based system, download the *.deb files and install with dpkg -i *.deb, or if you have Redhat based system, download the *.rpm files and install with rpm -i *.rpm.  Note you may have to remove conflicting packages like the previous header package.  To do so without having to remove half your operating system, specify the –nodeps option to rpm -e, for example rpm -e package, you may have to do this also for previous develop packages.

     These kernels are provided without warrantee, however, I would like to hear of something does not work.  If you encounter problems, please e-mail support@eskimo.com.