Without wading through hundreds (thousands?) of lines of devicedriver code which I
don't even pretend to understand, I'll still
hazard a guess that the original normal-Linux interrupt service routine probably
called one or more normal-Linux functions which
eventually wound their way back to the normal-Linux scheduler. BUT ... That's a BIG
NO-NO in an rt-linux ISR. At a minimum you'd
have to go through all of the possible code that could be executed from the ISR and
remove or replace every call to a normal-Linux
kernel routine to one that was RTlinux-safe.
Norman Dresner
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----- Original Message -----
From: Loren Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 9:39 AM
Subject: [rtl] help for a newbie
> Hi all. I am new to rtlinux and I have a problem I need help with.
>
> Briefly, I need to take the bttv driver for a framegrabber card and modify it
> so that, every time an interrupt is generated, the interrupt service routine is
> serviced by the real time kernel and a timestamp is read from another card. I
> have the real time driver for the other card working, but when I tried to
> convert the interrupt service routine from the bttv-driver.c source, I just
> ended up hanging the machine. I had hoped that a simple modification where I
> changed the request_irq to a rtl_request_irq and changed the interrupt service
> routine would do it....
>
> Can anyone point me toward a solution?
>
> thanks,
>
> Loren Frank
>
> Here is the (modified) driver code. I've modified the module init and clean
> functions as well as the intr_handler routine.
>
> /*
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