Re: How to talk to DAQ Hardware?

2007-08-27 Thread Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 09:56 +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Calin Culianu wrote: Now, there is no way to raise the priority of particular driver's ISRs is there? So that a specific ISR can preempt anything including a hard realtime process? It's the second

Re: How to talk to DAQ Hardware?

2007-08-27 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Sven-Thorsten Dietrich wrote: Therefore, it is inappropriate to qualify an operating system as hard or soft RT without deadline context. It is. An OS is not hard real-time (capable) if it cannot guarantee you with 100% certainty to meet ANY hard dead-line. There is a

Re: How to talk to DAQ Hardware?

2007-08-27 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Sven-Thorsten Dietrich wrote: On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 12:02 +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: As long as your non-realtime tasks are allowed to take locks, that also ^ prevent real-time tasks from preempting them, and as long as

RE: [PATCH] kexec: reenable HPET before kexec

2007-08-27 Thread Pallipadi, Venkatesh
I think we should dive little deeper to find out the root cause of the problem instead of putting the intermediate patch. These timer issues are tricky ones and we have already solved few of these. Going back to your original mail where you specify root cause. - You mentioned that first