On 12/12/2012 05:26 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Hi,
I have recently started to use Xenomai on Raspberry Pi. My experience with
Linux Kernel building etc. is zero so I downloaded the pre-built image
from powet.eu. I have successfully created a cross compile environment to
create user-space applications using the Posix skin. While tracking down
some mode changes I came across the limitation of Posix skin Timers in
that the timer expiry creates a signal which causes a mode switch.
I have considered creating an application layer timer module using a pool
of threads that use nanosleep and a callback function on expiry. Careful
management of these threads using a custom timer API could fulfill my
requirements.
While exploring the documentation for alternatives, I noticed that the
RTDM Driver Development API provides access to native timers that would
seem to perform the functionality that I need, On trying to use them in a
user-space application, however, it seems that they may only be used in
kernel-space. This leads me to the following question:

         Is the documentation incorrect for rtdm_timer_init() when it says
it may be used in user-space tasks?

Yes. This is likely a copy&paste leftover.


--
Philippe.

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