Triode wrote: 
> 
> We need to find a better kernel for this as we definately want to run
> with a kernel which can prememt and ideally the linux rt patches (as
> touch).  Could you try one of the other distros which runs on the
> beagleboard for the moment and see if this helps?

The guys at LinuxCNC managed to get a reatime kernel, but only through
the xenomai implementation, which is quite different from the
traditionnal preempt_rt. A realtime kernel for beaglebone seems to be
planned for mainstream for 3.8 but I did not find any trace of it in the
git sources (although I looked quite quickly). Detailed instructions are
here :
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Debian_Wheezy_Linux-Rt_Compile_LinuxCNC

And I found this realtime patch for kernel 3.6
(https://github.com/RobertCNelson/linux-dev/commit/4ca144074cd260819e9eff6d2f43181cde39f331)
which however will never go matinstream as they are working on the 3.8
--> we could go that way but that will means a part of the effort just
to maintain an up to date RT kernel for the platform



NB : an old comparison between xenomai / preempt_rt tested on the
beagleboard : https://www.osadl.org/fileadmin/dam/rtlws/12/Brown.pdf


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