Hi all,
Having followed the discussion on a Real Time Linux Workshop
with all pros and cons, we insist on a workshop for the
following reasons:
1) Nothing can beat the real discussion of a group of people
for the development of standards,
2) Presentation of real apps to NON-RTLinux and NON-Linux
people will make the group wider,
3) Visiting industry can give feedback and inputs for the
direction to go
4) Hands on workschop (5PC's or more if required) can only
be done by physical presence
5) media impact, an IRC meeting or any electronical will not
have any media impact because it remains closed.
6) develoment of rt requirements especially BEFORE the
Linux Expo in New York, and Linux development is fast
7) there is a nice christmas market in Vienna at this time.
Thus, read the ANNOUNCEMENT of the Real Time Linux Workshop
and feel free to forward it to anybody:
Real Time Linux Workshop
13/14. December 1999
Institut for Machine and Process Automation,
Vienna University of Technology,
Guszhausstr. 27-29, 1040 Vienna, Austria
http://www.thinkingnerds.com/projects/rtl-ws/rtl-ws.html
Linux has become a powerful operating system challenging the OS
and computer market, because it is open source and adaptable to
different hardware and computing problems. In particular, there
are some groups spread over the world developing some modifications
to the linux kernel in order to providea hard real time operation
system, e.g. NMT rt-linux, RTAI rt-linux, KURT, etc. Since IMHO
* developpers know one each other just by email,
* there is also a growing demand for real time operating
systems for different platforms,
* there is a danger that the fragmentation in different
variants can introduce a negative feedback in the real
time linux development because of the lack of a unified
application interface,
a Workshop could yield the following benefits:
* Bring together the developers, because there are more
channels of human communication in a conversation.
* Presentation the different versions of real time linux,
NMT rt-linux, RTAI rt-linux to a general audience of
researchers, developers and companies invited.
* Presentation of shared memory, using concepts from Linux
networking layer in DAQ, and an application of RT Linux
to trigger generator with control feedback loop by Thomasz
"Tomek" Motylevski.
* Profound discussion on the possibility of a unified approach
involving NMT and RTAI people.
* Discussion on a general application interface for a real
time linux version being independend on the hardware
platform it is ported to.
* Discussion on a port to AlphaAXP or other architectures.
* Plans for 2.4 to be contributed to the Linux development.
* Still 486 support ?
* Is POSIX better as the core of the scheduler, or should it
be built on primitive resources as a separate module.
* Agreement on a unified approach for different computer
hardware, even embedded systems.
Best regards,
Dr. Peter Wurmsdobler
CTM - Centre de Transfert des Microtechniques
39, av. de l'Observatoire, BP-1445, 25007 Besancon CEDEX 3
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