Roland Seuhs wrote:
> I will work for a project in September, where we will use Linux on a
> ColdFire inside a Power Quality Analyser for a small company.
> I am expirienced with C but I never wrote something like kernel-modules
> for Linux.
>
> Maybe (I don't know for sure now) it will be necessary to add
> RealTime-Support to the Analyser.
Probably worth while.
> So if we need it, I would volonteer to program/port RealTimeLinux to the
> ColdFire.(I'm the only guy in the company with Linux experience, so I
> will have to do the Linuxpart mostly on my own.)
Oh I know this feeling. It feels like such an up hill battle to convince M$
users to learn Linux/UNIX. The pity is my colleagues are software
developers and don't know the raw power at there finger tips. I'm trying to
let Linux going in our embedded project so I can convince them to replace
the commercial RTOS with Linux and hopefully RTLinux later. I will need to
port it to the Motorola MPC860. I know other people have enquired about
this port so they may be chance to work on it with others. If luck is with
me, someone will have already done it but I'm keen to have a go sometime.
> The ColdFire is the newest Processor from Motorola and descended from the
> 68000 - Family. There is already a Linux for this Processor, so I would
> just had to add the Real Time functionality.
>
> So I've got some questions:
>
> Are there other people with similar projects somewhere in the world?
> (There have to be!)
>
> Do you think that this can be done by one programmer in a reasonable time
> (1 Month)?
>
> Do you think that implementing RealTimeLinux on the ColdFire is merely a
> simple port or has the whole thing to be rewritten? (Time estimate?)
>
> Even some comment on implementing RTLinux on the ColdFire would be very
> helpful to know if it is worth the effort.
I would be interested in these answers also as I'm sure they would apply to
any port of RTLinux.
Regards,
Brendan Simon.
--- [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/
