Hey, again quick note from work by webmail (sorry): > I think it's the best to keep it as simple as possible. If necessary, try > to use APIC. But in your case, with the need of many simple machines, I > would try to contact some mainboard vendors and get some information which > machines would work without that APIC workaround. Once found a working one buy > those and everything should be fine!
Please don't spread the impression that the APIC support is some kind of "workaround". If the Mainboard/CPU you are using has a local APIC(-IO) chip, then activating the APIC support in the Kernel (and probably xenomai. I'm using RTAI and had to recompile it also) is not a workaround, but just correct usage of modern hardware. The old 16 IRQs, XT-style mode of course still work with the new APICs because of backwards compatibility. But simply using the real functionality (which is 24 seperate IRQs) is NOT a workaround! If the Board supports this, APIC is definitely a feasable solution to the problem. CU Fabian TabascoEye -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal für Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ RTnet-users mailing list RTnet-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rtnet-users
