On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Josh Roden wrote: > Can anyone advise us on which Linux Real Time distro > to use + any tools etc... that could help us. > Here at the Hadassah College our Virtual Reality department > wants to give its students the opportunity to do their final project > in the RT field. To this end we will have to build a RT computer > environment.
since no one else responded here yet, i'll write what little i know about this subject. the only 'real-time' linux system i have put my hands on, was RT-Linux (from FSM labs - www.fsmlabs.com, and more specifically - http://www.fsmlabs.com/products/openrtlinux/). it used to come as a patch to the kernel (it required very specific kernels back then) and a set of libraries. basically it runs linux as the lowest-level task of the rt-linux kernel, and your write the real-time stuff using their API (which is a subset of POSIX) which runs in non-protected mode... it took less then a day to install it on the first time and getting their example programs running. and indeed, they seem to respond to interrupts in the time-frame they claim (tested on a non-loaded machine, though). there are other real-time linux versions, such as hard-hat linux, which you might want to take a look at. -- guy "For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
