Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261401AbVEXNZN (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2005 09:25:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261165AbVEXNXy (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2005 09:23:54 -0400 Received: from opersys.com ([64.40.108.71]:18697 "EHLO www.opersys.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261470AbVEXNS6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2005 09:18:58 -0400 Message-ID: <42932C32.8040500@opersys.com> Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 09:29:22 -0400 From: Karim Yaghmour Reply-To: karim@opersys.com Organization: Opersys inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040805 Netscape/7.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, fr, fr-be, fr-ca, fr-fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Esben Nielsen CC: Christoph Hellwig , Daniel Walker , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, akpm@osdl.org, sdietrich@mvista.com, Philippe Gerum Subject: Re: RT patch acceptance References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1018 Lines: 25 Esben Nielsen wrote: > I find that a bad approach: > 1) You don't have RT in userspace. > 2) You can't use Linux drivers for standeard hardware when you want it to > be part of your deterministic RT application. Please have a look at RTAI/fusion. For the record, RTAI has been providing hard-rt in standard Linux user-space for over 5 years now. With RTAI/Fusion this gets even better as there isn't even a special API ... Here are a few links if you're interested: http://www.rtai.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=1 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111634653913840&w=2 Karim -- Author, Speaker, Developer, Consultant Pushing Embedded and Real-Time Linux Systems Beyond the Limits http://www.opersys.com || karim@opersys.com || 1-866-677-4546 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/