On Wednesday, April 11, 2018 03:27:48 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > What seems to be lost on you folks not running realtime patched kernels, > is that when linuxcnc is running, it has total control over the > hardware, and that linux becomes a client of the realtime system, > getting what cpu time is left after linuxcnc has finished what it has to > do to meet the timing constraints needed to run the machine and meet the > sub-micron positioning accuracy required.
Hmm, a more careful 2nd reading may have answered my question, but I'll ask anyway--on first reading I wondered if that was true of any program running in / making use of a Linux realtime kernel--that is, that the realtime program (linuxcnc) (or is that the kernel) has total control over the machine. On 2nd reading, I think the answer is yes, i.e., if I have a midi program making use of the / a real time kernel, it will have total control of the machine and other programs will have the "leftovers"?
