On Monday 23 June 2014 13:49:51 Bari did opine
And Gene did reply:

>From the resident old fart :)

> Just posting this info since this gets asked about often in IRC
> 
> For RTAI to work with more recent kernels than 3.4 with Linuxcnc:
> 
> 1)  fix the scheduler in RTAI
 
URL for that patch?

> 2) math support in kernel kconfig has changed and no options seem to
> work with Linuxcnc

Are you saying that forcing the math to be done by LCNC by leaving out any 
fast math in the kernel is the only way that works?  Or that nothing newer 
than 3.4 works?
> 
> 3) Linuxcnc needs to fix /proc in order for any 3.10 or newer RTAI
> kernels to work

URL for that patch?
> 
> One workaround for the broken scheduler is with isocpu= you need to
> leave the last cpu core out of the list. For example isolcpus=1,2,3 for
> a 4 core and it should work or a single core cpu should work fine.
> 
This seems backwards from what I've been told ever since the isolcpus 
thing became available.  Its my understanding that if I have isolcpus=1 in 
the kernel command line of the grub file on my 2 core atom boards, with 
hyperthreading turned off as its a huge time killer, then LCNC sees it and 
runs the base_thread stuff on cpu1, and the rest of it on cpu0.  And 
everything else I run (firefox, konversation, gedit etc) can only see 
cpu0.  And the system runs well even when there is network traffic.

Thanks Bari.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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