Re: [rtl] Passing numbers from RT thread to Linux thread

2001-08-20 Thread Stephane List
I think that the best way is to use union, it's nice and fast. Stephane On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 03:24:36PM +0200, David Olofson wrote : On Friday 17 August 2001 01:29, Calin Culianu wrote: On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Victor Yodaiken wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 04:17:48PM -0400, Calin Culianu

Re: [rtl] Can I call regular kernel functions?

2001-08-20 Thread Calin Culianu
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, David Olofson wrote: On Friday 17 August 2001 03:34, Calin Culianu wrote: Let's say your real-time thread were (erroneously) making use of some kernel services that could potentially block. (Like, oh, writing to a Linux fifo that might not have its buffers in memory,

Re: [rtl] Can I call regular kernel functions?

2001-08-20 Thread Calin Culianu
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Anders Gnistrup wrote: Calin Culianu wrote: Let's say your real-time thread were (erroneously) making use of some kernel services that could potentially block. (Like, oh, writing to a Linux fifo that might not have its buffers in memory, for instance). Could

Re: [rtl] Passing numbers from RT thread to Linux thread

2001-08-20 Thread David Olofson
On Saturday 18 August 2001 15:50, Calin Culianu wrote: On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, David Olofson wrote: [...] If the pointers would really be different, it's entirely possible that they one type can't be translated into the other, and possibly vice versa. (Think about near and far pointers; one

Re: [rtl] user space program hangs

2001-08-20 Thread David Olofson
On Saturday 18 August 2001 09:36, Herman Bruyninckx wrote: On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Dan Peters wrote: [...] I believe it all has to do somehow with interrupting X calls. Do you have any experience with running X under rtlinux? I have work with X many times in a non RT environment and have

Re: [rtl] user space program hangs

2001-08-20 Thread Herman Bruyninckx
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Dan Peters wrote: [...] I believe it all has to do somehow with interrupting X calls. Do you have any experience with running X under rtlinux? I have work with X many times in a non RT environment and have not had these problems. Is there a better alternative to

Re: [rtl] Examples and such

2001-08-20 Thread Norm Dresner
Okay, it's my turn to dine on crow. Once I got back to my saved mailing list archive and re-read the documentation, I discovered that I was trying to compile the current version of rtlinux code with (the equivalent of) a makefile designed for v1-code. There are apparently a bunch of compiler

Re: [rtl] DOUBT ABOUT PROGRAMMING RS232 USING C-lang

2001-08-20 Thread Victor Yodaiken
I'll give you some advice that will be of great help: do your own homework. On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 08:25:43AM -0700, madan mohan wrote: sir, i am a student and very much interested in doing programs in C language. i request YOU to help me in doing programming ON RS232 , and

Re: [rtl] DOUBT ABOUT PROGRAMMING RS232 USING C-lang

2001-08-20 Thread Erwin Rol
On 20 Aug 2001 10:43:52 -0600, Victor Yodaiken wrote: I'll give you some advice that will be of great help: do your own homework. And have your CAPS LOCK key fixed :-) On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 08:25:43AM -0700, madan mohan wrote: sir, i am a student and very much interested in doing

Re[2]: [rtl] user space program hangs

2001-08-20 Thread j_clifton
Has anyone else noticed that Gnome runs an app called magicdev which can screwup realtime? It keeps polling the (IDE) CDROM and writing bogus media swapped messages to syslog then writing syslog to disk. I found if you go into control_panels-peripherals-CD_ROM and turn off all of the options it

[rtl] ANNOUNCE: xenodaptor

2001-08-20 Thread Philippe Gerum
Hi everyone, FYI, aside of CarbonKernel (for the few who are aware of its existence :o) I've just started a new free software project (GPL) called XENODAPTOR. It is an attempt to facilitate the migration of applications based on proprietary embedded RTOS to hard real-time Linux variants such

Re: [rtl] Examples and such

2001-08-20 Thread Michael Barabanov
Once I got back to my saved mailing list archive and re-read the documentation, I discovered that I was trying to compile the current version of rtlinux code with (the equivalent of) a makefile designed for v1-code. There are apparently a bunch of compiler switches and command-line #defines

[rtl] Help on telescope control by stepper motor

2001-08-20 Thread cop00kcd
Hi, I am trying to control a telescope by using three stepper motors, I worked out the transfer function of VR two-phase excitation stepper motor but I need standard values for different types of stepper motors of the following parameters: r stator-circuit resistance L shelf inductance of

[rtl] DOUBT ABOUT PROGRAMMING RS232 USING C-lang

2001-08-20 Thread madan mohan
sir, i am a student and very much interested in doing programs in C language. i request YOU to help me in doing programming ON RS232 , and give a small program , how to read data from RS232 PORT AND STORING INTO A TEXT FILE OR INTO A DATABASE FILE LIKE FOXPRO ETC. SIR,IF POSSIBLE

Re: [rtl] Examples and such

2001-08-20 Thread Michael Barabanov
So examples/v1api/frank doesn't compile? Did you enable CONFIG_RTL_USE_V1_API and recompile RTL? Norm Dresner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Okay, I confesss, I've seen these questions a hundred times. But I'm not at work and my main e-mail computer at home is down and I don't have the archive