On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 10:42 +0100, Philippe Gerum wrote: > On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 00:10 +0000, Paul wrote: > > Hi Jan > > > > On Friday 23 February 2007 23:30, Jan Kiszka wrote: > > > recent development on Xenomai and the underlying I-pipe patch [1] > > > reached a point where real experiments on yet another architecture for > > > RTnet are starting to make sense. > > > > > > In fact, RTnet has been enabled to build over x86_64 already two weeks > > > back, including a necessary fix to the RTDM layer. I just checked again: > > > it still compiles fine. 8) > > > > > > I'm lacking a test platform, so _you_ have the unique chance to be the > > > first person running RTnet on 64 bits! Grab a 2.6.19 kernel and the > > > latest I-pipe patch [2], checkout Xenomai [3] and RTnet trunk [4]. Put > > > everything on some native 64-bit Linux installation and give it hell. > > > > As you probably know, I've already committed to running tests over the > > weekend > > on real hardware - Not being familiar with RTnet, are there any test suites > > that can be used on say i386<->AMD64<->ppc ? > > > > > Ah, and don't forget to report your findings! > > > > /me is good at breaking "stuff" and reporting the results ;) > > > > > > Btw, to push SMP too hard for now, I've just discovered an instability > under RT operations, and enabling the tracer over SMP does introduce > another random issue here. UP still looks fine. I'm going to chase the > SMP issues now. >
CONFIG_PREEMPT breaks the toy when enabled, so you should be able to safely run the Xenomai stack over SMP/x86_64 without preemption for the time being. -- Philippe. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ RTnet-users mailing list RTnet-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rtnet-users
