On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Chris Morley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been reading a little about RTAI and Xenomai. > I wonder Why EMC choose RTAI, Other then at the time Xenomai may not have > been available (around 2005?).
Xenomai is only, very, very recent 'invention' > It seems that Xen is developed more or maybe more openly - I can find more > info on it by far. > Comparisons are rare but it seems that RTAI has possibly 10% less latency > and Xen is more flexible in regards to platforms,architecture and debugging > capability. At the time of the EMC beginnings, there were little choices and eventually something worked well enough :). Remember the 133MHz computers we used that time? Loading a webpage today on one would make it crash. > If EMC and or HAL is to be used with anything else besides X86 could the > realtime patch change? As far as I understand it the complications are similar to convering to AMD64 support. It is possible, but takes time. > Is there any real intention to be able to use EMC/HAL with anything besides > X86? There was slight interest, but the neverending inflow of better and faster x86 computers made it go away. Also better control cards are now available. > Is the reason for RTAI over any other - lowest latency number, Why change > what works, No interest, or a technical reason? > I take it that EMC does not actively use RT-linux anymore because RTAI was > better? Isn't RT-linux proprietary (or used mostly on proprietary aerospace systems?) > Just curious really Just what I remember out of my head. (or trunk?) > > Chris Morley > _________________________________________________________________ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
