Realtime patches for 2.6 kernel for audio work

[Jeff Buchbinder]

I found a clean kernel patch for 2.6 which allows the realtime patches
which were previously available for the 2.4 kernel series to be
applied. This allows a kernel which can be used in extremely low
latency environments, such as professional audio environments.

I had started to create kernel packages with this patch, but I was
wondering if any of the official kernel package maintainers would be
interested in creating a separate kernel version, considering that the
patch applies very cleanly to an Ubuntu-patched kernel.

The upstream source for the patches is:
http://people.redhat.com/mingo/realtime-preempt/

I have already packaged (or rebuilt with appropriate dependencies)
Ubuntu packages for ardour, hydrogen, et cetera, which are available
via sourceforge at:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=15664&package_id=153629&release_id=331016

You can also pull from any of their mirrors using an apt-get line:
deb http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/linuxrpms/ ./
(or you can replace "easynews" with your preferred mirror site)

I can probably package it myself, but it would make more sense for it
to be in Ubuntu "upstream" as opposed to having me sync my kernel
builds with the official maintainers' builds.

Jeff