[rtl] Bug in llimd in RTAI (version 1.5 and 1.6)

2001-05-16 Thread Laurent . Kersten
Hello, Whether I try to use llimd with a negative number as first argument, I got a crash (or an arithmetic exception if I use the function in a normal linux process). The following call crash : llimd ( -25 000 000,400 000 000, 1000 000) But the following seems OK : llimd ( 25 000 000,400 0

RE: [rtl] High Disk activity

2001-04-04 Thread Laurent . Kersten
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[rtl] Weird side-effect with FIFOs

2001-01-04 Thread Laurent . Kersten
Hello, I discovered something strange with the FIFOs (RTAI-1.5). I wrote a small RT task that basically put a character to a FIFO, do a few thing (print a message in the log file and do a few computation). and then read the FIFO again. This is the only RT task in the system. So normally, you

[rtl] Little problem in semaphore function in RTAI 1.5

2000-12-14 Thread Laurent . Kersten
Hello, I've found a nicely "undocumented feature", in the semaphore package. I discovered that when you initialise a semaphore with a zero count. Although everything seems to wors fine. this means any process that do a rt_sem_wait actually wait until another task make a rt_sem_signal, you h

Re: [rtl] Linux BootPrompt Question + side question

2000-11-28 Thread Laurent . Kersten
tween high_memory and memory_end, that would be interresting ...). - I initialize the VME Bridge - Then do a simple write access to memory. The "funny" part of it is that I could access the whole memory over the VME bus Laurent Kersten ABSp.

[rtl] Hiding memory to the kernel

2000-11-15 Thread Laurent . Kersten
is enough) doesn't work anymore. I had a quick look in the kernel source code (init/main.c) and I can't find my "mem="kernel paramater. Is that disappeared ? And if yes, how can I find back my old trick ? Thanks Laurent Kersten ABSp. -- [rtl] --- To unsubscribe: echo &

[rtl] timex.h and RTAI 1.5 (over 2.2.16 kernel)

2000-11-06 Thread Laurent . Kersten
the problem. I posted it a few days ago to the linux-kernel mailing list. The people there were unable to reproduce the problem and thus I conclude that this might due to the RTAI patch appliance. Any clues ? Best regards Laurent Kersten Alcatel Bell Space N.V. Berkenrodelei 33 B-2660 Hobo

[rtl] GCC builtin ?

2000-10-25 Thread Laurent . Kersten
Hello, I'm trying to compile a small program I write (actually part of iit). Unfortunately there are memcpy (and also strcpy) call in my code. I though that GCC convert them to builtins and so no call are made. And it seems to work ... on some filesonly ... I'm using GCC version egcs 2.91.66