On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 02:20:43PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: > On 2011-09-27 14:01, Richard Cochran wrote: > > Again, every MAC driver needs to be tastefully and wisely adapted. I > > don't necessarily need to avoid coalescing. The goal (for me) is *not* > > to provide deterministic Ethernet performance. Instead the RT packets > > should just be delivered ASAP. > > This is obviously the point I completely missed. And it makes the whole > thing fairly uninteresting IMHO. If you want to do Ethercat, PowerLink > or Profinet (RT), you do need a certain level of determinism along the > *whole* packet path. And for the latter two, you definitely need RT IRQ > support, Ethercat can be OK to poll in fast setups. > > From that POV, your approach is likely OK. But I doubt its of generic > use, specifically for industrial RT Ethernet.
So, how does rtnet support EtherCAT? Does it support PowerLink and Profinet? Thanks, Richard _______________________________________________ Xenomai-core mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/xenomai-core
