> Hi, > > Did somebody consider linux-rt (not RT-Linux) for EMC2? Yup, you can read about it here: http://axis.unpythonic.net/01190912545
> Here's an LWN article about it: > http://lwn.net/Articles/319544/ (subscribers only. Mail me in private > and I can send you a free link to the article). > > It seems that with linux-rt almost all RT stuff can run in userspace. > In fact, I think it should be possible to run a parport based setup fully > in userspace, because you can easily access the parport hardware from > userspace > via iopl(). > > So what could possibly be difficult in RTAPI to port? > > We certainly won't get the same performance with it, yet. linux-rt still > has some > latency issues to be solved. But I think in the > future linux-rt could be better than RTAI, especially because linux-rt is > being > slowly merged to mainline. So in the long term it could reduce complexity > in EMC. I don't think linux-rt will get to the point where it replaces RTAI. They are different things, with different goals. But nonetheless linux-rt can be something usefull to run a servo system for example. Regards, Alex ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
