Thanks, Jan, Lars, Michael, Charles, Ken, and Steve for your thoughts. I'll have to cogitate a bit on what to do next, but I can answer Steve off the top of my head. Two pre-built realtime kernels are available from the Debian Wheezy repository. The amd64 build is for 64-bit amd and intel processors; there is also a 32-bit 3.2.0-3-rt-686-pae build. That's what I alluded to in my third agenda item to try.
<muttered aside> Yes, I know I could custom-build my own kernel, but there comes a point where I say "enough, this isn't just tweaking any more." It took LinuxCNC (well, ok, EMC2) a while to get to the point where a LiveCD distribution just works for most folk. I'm hoping it doesn't take as long for our use of these alternative realtime platforms to stabilize in the same way, especially since I believe they are necessary alternatives. If using RT PREEMPT or Xenomi approaches requires more than a straightforward tuning-your-system checklist, then I don't know how we'll make the alternatives attractive to our user base let alone attract new classes of users. That would be unfortunate. </muttered aside> It's clear to me from your responses that if I want to run with the big dogs I have to learn how to instrument a realtime environment :-) Regards, Kent On 9/14/2012 8:05 AM, Steve Stallings wrote: > Hi Kent, > > I have NO experience with doing this sort of build, > but have to wonder if it is significant that your > target is an Atom D510 cpu, yet you list a kernel > for amd64. > > Regards, > Steve Stallings > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Kent A. Reed [mailto:kentallanr...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 11:31 PM >> To: EMC developers >> Subject: [Emc-developers] question re RT PREEMPT linux on >> ASUS Atom board >> >> >> <blah blah blah> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got visibility? Most devs has no idea what their production app looks like. Find out how fast your code is with AppDynamics Lite. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219671;13503038;y? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
