On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 09:56 +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Calin Culianu wrote:
> 
> > Now, there is no way to raise the priority of particular driver's ISRs is
> > there?  So that a specific ISR can preempt anything including a hard 
> > realtime
> > process?
> 
> It's the second time you say "hard" real-time, so, just wanted to warn - 
> it is not hard. It is still only soft real time, but a pretty good one, I 
> think.


Hard / Soft is a property of the application's deadline requirements,
not a property of the operating system.

The consequences of missing a deadline determine determine whether an RT
>application< is hard or soft RT. 

Therefore, it is inappropriate to qualify an operating system as hard or
soft RT without deadline context.

Sven
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