Thanks Kent, I'll give it a try...And thanks for your turgid prose, I have used 
it a few time on past systems :-)
-Tom


On Feb 12, 2013, at 12:23 PM, Kent A. Reed <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, Tom.
> 
> I wrote that bit of turgid prose about the boot parameter so I feel 
> honor-bound to reply:-)
> 
> A simplified sequence of events is that once the BIOS + first stage 
> GRUB2 booting finishes, GRUB2 selects and boots a Linux kernel. The 
> instructions to GRUB2 for doing this is contained in 
> /boot/grub/grub.cfg. My wiki page merely addresses how to deal with the 
> GRUB2 way of doing things compared to classic GRUB.
> 
> The isolcpus parameter is one of many optional boot parameters which can 
> be passed to the kernel for it to process as it initializes (see 
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt).
> 
> Whether or not one chooses to follow my approach to setting this 
> parameter, the isolcpus parameter is merely passed to the kernel, 
> whatever the kernel may be. To the best of my knowledge (but, hey, I've 
> been known to be wrong once or twice before) both the kernel+RTAI and 
> the kernel+Xenomai deal with this parameter in the same way.
> 
> Regards,
> Kent


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