Hi,
> RTL on Alpha would offer more performance than any DSP. I hope
> that some people will do the job of porting RTL to Alpha.
That is what I am suspecting. Thus, Nicholas McGuire, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
and me would be interested in doing the port. However, the people
at the austrian company got confused when I was talking about
the interrupt handler which is different for rtl. They think that
rtl wants to change the CPUs hardware interrupt handling to make
linux real time compliant.
As far as I understand rtl, two basic schemes are implemented:
Introduce two classes of interrupts, one treated in real time by
the interrupt handler ( piece of software called by the CPU if an
interrupt is issued ), and a second one simulating interrupts to
the normal Linux kernel. The second idea is two classes of processes,
scheduled with different policies. Both together introduce a layer
between the CPU and the OS being capable of doing signal processing,
and if there is some time left, yield the CPU to a UNIX workstation.
Hence, there should be no problem to port rtl to alpha AXP. If I
am wrong, correct me, please, if not, I will forward the informations
to the austrian dealer of Alpha based workstations.
peterw
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