Re: [Emc-developers] Difference RTAI 5.0 <--> PREEMPT-rt ?

2016-01-03 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Sun, 3 Jan 2016, Niemand Sonst wrote: > Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 19:59:41 +0100 > From: Niemand Sonst > Reply-To: EMC developers > To: EMC developers > Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Difference RTAI 5.0 <--> PREEMPT-rt ? > > Yes, > > in some words: > >

Re: [Emc-developers] Difference RTAI 5.0 <--> PREEMPT-rt ?

2016-01-03 Thread Neil Whelchel
Hello, To cut to the core, RTAI is basically an interrupt dispatcher that traps interrupts and re-routes them up either through the RTAI (realtime) modules, or for non realtime tasks back to the Linux kernel. RTAI also provides an API for realtime functions, and floating point operations. The gener

Re: [Emc-developers] Difference RTAI 5.0 <--> PREEMPT-rt ?

2016-01-03 Thread Niemand Sonst
Yes, in some words: RTAI is much faster, but relies on the kernel you have, so it is much more complicated to be included in software parts. It is mostly needed only for very high speed applications PREEMPT-RT is a a little bit slower than RTAI, but can be implemented in software much easier,

[Emc-developers] Difference RTAI 5.0 <--> PREEMPT-rt ?

2016-01-03 Thread Karlsson & Wang
Do anybode know the difference between RTAI and PREEMPT-rt? Regards Nicklas Karlsson -- ___ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.source