On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 12:39 -0500, gene heskett wrote: > On Thursday, February 09, 2012 12:38:04 PM Ben Jackson did opine: > > > On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 11:23:47AM +0200, andy pugh wrote: > > > It is servo-thread only as it uses floating-point. I am not entirely > > > sure why. > > > > Aha, that's why I added the laser-thread in my HAL: A base-period > > thread with FP allowed. On a modern CPU it's no big deal. > > I wonder if that is a hangover from when most computers needed a floating > point chip installed? > > Cheers, Gene
My understanding is, it is because RTAI (loadrt) has no floating point functions. Floating point has to be done in userland (loadusr). But now that I mention it, then why would one specify even a servo thread? I guess I don't have an understanding. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
