Greetings, Just to ket you all know I have spent a year or so working hard to help Ray's 3's and 4's ( 5's even ) . ( See below for definitions ). I have a paper "Using Real Time Linux" that should help. http://www.realtimelinux.org/articles/linux-expo/montreal/paper/indexc.html This was given in Paris , Montreal and Spain this year. I noticed some bugs in it and I'll get thise fixed asap. This was written with just this level of introduction in mind. I am giving a more advanced paper this year in San Jose which covers some more debuging and embedded systems as well. If I can I will try to repeat the "tour" next year. In the mean time you may get some help from the current paper. Regards Phil Wilshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I just bought a copy of Sams (McMillan's) text on Linux Programming Unleashed > (Printed August 1999, by Kurt Wall, ISBN 0-672-31607-2). > > This book is great. There are a few of us that are very interested in Linux, > RTLinux, and the whole implementation scene, > but some of the more esoteric questions go unanswered. > Kinda a forest vs trees situation. > > For example: (some of the material this book provides) > It has taken some time for me to realize what an insmod is and does. A module > isn't an ordinary program.... > Using libraries: Many a novice (like me) has no idea there is a difference > between libc5 and libc6 (or that there even are two different libraries). > Did you know that a ring buffer and a FIFO are the same thing? > Did you kow that device drivers have a top half and a bottom half? > GNU cc: how in the heck do you use it? > Program Revision Control (at least for that point in time when Revison Control > becomes something you care about :>) > Also there are chapters on Memory Mangement, Shared Memory, and TCP/IP & Socket > Programming (i.e. how to send a broadcast message...). > > Well, this book is a great source of information and instruction. Answered a > lot of my questions, like the ones listed above. > There's even a section on how to run a stepper motor thru the parallel port > (example on writing device drivers). > > The only drawback to the book is that MacMillan screwed up and omitted the > CDROMS from the back of the book (and the author repeatedly refers to the CDROMs > and files). > The source code is available via download and if you call the right dude at > MacMillan they'll send the Mandrake Distribution via regular mail. > > I have absolutely no interest or hidden agenda in sending you this notice other > than I thought the RTL community might like to know of this resource. > > Based on my observation of some of the RTL postings I think there may be a few > suscribers in each of the following categories: > 1.Supreme Guru of Linux and RTLinux (these guys may not like to be annoyed) > 2.Expert User - (more than one process/project/installation implemented > successfully) > 3.New User - Have gotten an RTLinux process to run successfully > 4.RTL Wannabe - Eager to get their first RTLinux installation up and running an > RTLinux process > 5.What's RTL? - (speaks for itself). > > I fall into category 4, and from the mail postings there are a few of us in > category 4. > > This book would be a great resource to point the category 4 and some category 3 > people to in order to get the big picture. > > Just thought you might like to know. > > Regards, > > Ray Minich > > -- [rtl] --- > To unsubscribe: > echo "unsubscribe rtl" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR > echo "unsubscribe rtl <Your_email>" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- > For more information on Real-Time Linux see: > http://www.rtlinux.org/rtlinux/ -- [rtl] --- To unsubscribe: echo "unsubscribe rtl" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR echo "unsubscribe rtl <Your_email>" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- For more information on Real-Time Linux see: http://www.rtlinux.org/rtlinux/
