Karim Yaghmour wrote:
>
> The "unfortunate" nature of the inclusion of RTL stuff into the mainstream
> kernel has to do with the way the project is being developed, not because
> of the technical advantages of having RT support in Linux. I agree with
Could you be more specific here ???
What's the problem with RTL development ?
> context established by Paolo's remarks. What I mean by Microsoft-like
> way of innovating is the fact that Victor has taken a lot of ideas, that
> had been put forward by Paolo, and put them into RTL without __explicit__
I think everyone has the right to change its mind over the time and also
when you
invent something, it doesn't mean you are the only one how invented it.
(thats why I don't understand US patents for one-click and many others)
> recognition of the source of inspiration. The reason RTAI ever started
> (or, at least, what I make of it) is that Paolo kept sending good ideas
> to Victor and Victor kept ignoring Paolo. Having had enough of this,
I don't know about Paolo but my comments, problems, suggestions were
always
solved nicely.
> Paolo went on his way and started RTAI. It seems now that someone somewhere
> realized that the Paolo's ideas were good after all and that they should
> be part of RTL.
I still don't understand how RTAI could be called hard-real time when
there are no kernel modification - CLI/STI are the enemies and I would
like to know how they are handled in RTAI. What happens when
SBLive driver calls spinlock_irq_safe ??
> Of course no one can stop any open-source contributor from taking
> inspiration from another project, but I think that there is a bare minimum
> of social decency and scientific honesty to give back the merit where it
file from RTL distribution: rlt/CREDITS
...
Paolo Mantegazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
...
What's wrong with this - you want to know which lines come from Paolo
???
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