victor wrote: > a question for the OS people: what is the level of preemption > in the olpc supplied kernel? > hi victor -- does this help? $ grep PREEMPT .config # CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE is not set # CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY is not set CONFIG_PREEMPT=y # CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU is not set CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT=y paul =--------------------- paul fox, pgf at laptop.org