On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 6:20 PM, joelk <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Monday, February 15, 2016 at 6:32:08 PM UTC-5, William Hermans wrote:
>>
>>
>> More than that, I seriously doubt an RT kernel is going to help with this
>> type of situation. RT kernels are meant to help with real time situations,
>> and camera applications do not to my knowledge do not need, or even want
>> real time operation. In fact, I do believe if you do the research a real
>> time kernel can potentially slow down disk access, disk caching, and the
>> like.
>>
>>
>> Yes, but maybe you misread the discussion.  RT was already built into the
> image I downloaded.  Robert suggested that I install the non-RT kernel and
> so far that seems to have solved the problems, so yes, it seems that
> something in the RT kernel was probably causing my trouble.
>
> When I run apt-cache search linux-image it gives me a list of choices with
> suffixes like ...armv7...  ...ti... and ...bone... with various versions of
> each.  Where can I find some documentation that describes what each of them
> is?
>

armv7 = generic

bone = tuned for the am335x on the beaglebone's

ti = uses ti's kernel as a basis..

then they each have an rt varient..

there's also lpae but this cortex core doesn't support that..

The common ones are listed here:

http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#Kernel_Options

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
https://rcn-ee.com/

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