On Saturday 10 March 2007, Jack Ensor wrote:

And your mailer is broken Jack, no way to tell who wrote what here.

>It looks like I have a problem with smi (system maintenance interrupts)
>increasing the latency and causing the realtime errors. Referencing EMC
>Documentation Wiki - FixingDapperSMIIssues they give these instructions:
>
>********
>3. Changing smi-module.c
>
>First you need to get the sources for the dapper version of RTAI:
>
>to get the sources for the dapper version you need to
>    apt-get source rtai-3.3
>
>Find the smi-module.c inside rtai/base/arch/i386/calibration, and change
> the following line:
>#define CONFIG_RTAI_HW_SMI_ALL 1
>
>Once that is changed, you can compile the module and replace the version
> already installed.
>
>4. Compiling the new module
>
>Unless you want to use the existing build process (which means you need
> to put the rtai sources in /usr/src/modules/rtai-3.3/ and use make-kpkg
> to build the modules) use the following Makefile:
>
>Makefile
>
>    UNAME := $(shell uname -r)
>    KERNEL26 := 2.6
>    KERNELVERSION := $(findstring $(KERNEL26),$(UNAME))
>
>    obj-m      := rtai_smi.o
>    rtai_smi-objs := smi-module.o
>
>    INCLUDE    := -I/usr/include/asm/mach-default/
>    KDIR       := /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build
>    PWD                := $(shell pwd)
>
>    all::
>       $(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) $(INCLUDE) SUBDIRS=$(PWD) modules
>
>Simply run make, and the new module should be built. (Alternative: grab
> the binary from [[here]]).
There is no link for^^^^^

>5. Installing the new module
>
>Installing means simply copying the new binary module over the old
> version, located at: /usr/realtime-2.6.15-magma/modules/rtai_smi.ko
>***********
>
>My question is do they simply mean down load the binary file and then
> copy it over /usr/realtime-2.6.15-magma/modules/rtai_smi.ko ?
>
>Do I still have to do step 4?

Probably not, but if you download the binary, you may have to set its 
perms to match the one you are over-writing, do it before the overwrite.

>Jack Ensor

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