Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261201AbVFABjk (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 May 2005 21:39:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261202AbVFABjk (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 May 2005 21:39:40 -0400 Received: from opersys.com ([64.40.108.71]:20233 "EHLO www.opersys.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261201AbVFABji (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 May 2005 21:39:38 -0400 Message-ID: <429D1451.2060001@opersys.com> Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 21:50:09 -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: Steven Rostedt CC: Philippe Gerum , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, hch@infradead.org, dwalker@mvista.com, Ingo Molnar , Sven-Thorsten Dietrich , Andi Kleen , "Bill Huey (hui)" , Nick Piggin , James Bruce , Esben Nielsen , "Paul E. McKenney" , Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: RT patch acceptance References: <20050531143051.GL5413@g5.random> <20050531161157.GQ5413@g5.random> <20050531183627.GA1880@us.ibm.com> <20050531204544.GU5413@g5.random> <429D0C13.3000006@opersys.com> <1117589425.4749.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1117589425.4749.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> 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: 1582 Lines: 33 Steven Rostedt wrote: > This looks very interesting. I need to read more into RTAI and friends > when I get a chance. I just received the latest Linux Journal that has > the article about the use of RTLinux with the control of magnetic > bearings. I've just started reading it so I don't know all the details > yet but it still looks very promising. I'll abstain from reviving any of the RTLinux vs. RTAI zombies, none of those that attended are in any way eager to take those ones out of the closet, but I would suggest some archive browsing. It is nevertheless, safe to say that there a lot of differences between these projects, and that both sides have a very different idea of what these differences are and what they mean. Great care should be taken not to disturb the dead :) > I don't think the adding of preempt-RT patch to the kernel will hurt > anything. In fact I think it may even help out the RTAI and friends. > Anyway, as it has been stated, this discussion has started too early. > (Thanks Daniel ;-) I've removed the disclaimer in my latest replies, but I stated very early in this thread that the approaches are not mutually exclusive. 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/