Daniel Marian wrote: > Hello, > As part of our RTLinux project assignment for summer vacation. I have to study >whether RTLinux has the same > functionality for timers as the Linux kernel. > > For example does RTLinux have dynamic timers which are > existent in Linux kernel.Does RTLinux have a bottom > Half when a timer interrupt arrives. >
No bottom halves in RTLinux (not in the 3.0 anyway) > > How does RTLinux update the jiffies and other related > variables. The normal linux timer interrupt is called from rtlinux whenever it is necessary (after a jiffy has passed) This handler will then take care of what normally happens when the linux timer goes off ... eg like increasing the jiffies variable. > > > Please help/direct me to some material on the net > which deals with all the above mentioned areas. > > thanks in advance > daniel. We recently created a RTLinux version for StrongARM (can be found at http://www.imec.be/rtlinux ) The source code for ARM contains a lot of comment (more than for the other GPL versions anyway). Have a look at the patch ... and mail me if you want more info on them ... Vincent Nollet -- [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/
