Re: [Emc-developers] 12.04, xenomai, rtai buffering/blocking question

2013-02-21 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
The Wheezy PREEMPT_RT kernel works well on the newer hardware I've tested on. Plenty good enough if you've got hardware assist, and maybe OK for with software step-gen if you don't need super high rates. RTAI/Xenomai jitter numbers are still about 2-4x better, but both are significantly more

[Emc-developers] 12.04, xenomai, rtai buffering/blocking question

2013-02-20 Thread Tom Easterday
I have a problem that looks like either process scheduling, or buffering, some sort of blocking on a linuxcnc host running 12.04/Xenomai and 2.6.0pre. It does not display this problem on 10.04/RTAI and 2.6.0pre (same base hardware, an intel atom board). The symptom is that when continuously

Re: [Emc-developers] 12.04, xenomai, rtai buffering/blocking question

2013-02-20 Thread Tom Easterday
Let me re-ask the question, for which I gave too much prior information. Apologies for that. Are there pre-built packages for RTAI on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise? -Tom On Feb 20, 2013, at 3:52 PM, Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at wrote: Tom, Am 20.02.2013 um 20:29 schrieb Tom Easterday:

Re: [Emc-developers] 12.04, xenomai, rtai buffering/blocking question

2013-02-20 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 2/20/13 14:07 , Tom Easterday wrote: Let me re-ask the question, for which I gave too much priorinformation. Apologies for that. Are there pre-built packages for RTAI on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise? -Tom No. There is not yet a version of RTAI for the kernel in Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise). You

Re: [Emc-developers] 12.04, xenomai, rtai buffering/blocking question

2013-02-20 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 20.02.2013 um 22:07 schrieb Tom Easterday: Let me re-ask the question, for which I gave too much prior information. Apologies for that. Are there pre-built packages for RTAI on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise? -Tom no, which was part of the reason for the Xenomai/RT-PREEMPT effort but you will

Re: [Emc-developers] 12.04, xenomai, rtai buffering/blocking question

2013-02-20 Thread Lars Segerlund
On the a somewhat related note, debian wheezy have RT kernels included, just for information I haven't tried it out yet. But it's nice to have prebuilt. 2013/2/20 Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at: Am 20.02.2013 um 22:07 schrieb Tom Easterday: Let me re-ask the question, for which I gave