Re: [rtl] Re: [realtime] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Adaptive Domain Environment for Operating Systems

2001-02-19 Thread Paolo Mantegazza
Karim Yaghmour wrote: Hello Cort, You're somewhat right. There are hardware issues that may be out of the reach of any software, the PCI stall example is a good one. On the other, whether RTLinux is running on Alpha, MIPS or PowerPC, device drivers can still issue the equivalent cli/sti

Re: [rtl] Article about RTL/RTAI licence and patent situation

2001-02-19 Thread Robert Schwebel
Hello Bernhard, On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Bernhard Kuhn wrote: Just adding or modifying code in GPLed files will certainly result in a "derived work", means it has to be GPL. please take into account that the kernel has an addition to the GPL:

[rtl] Re: [realtime] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Adaptive Domain Environment for OperatingSystems

2001-02-19 Thread Mark_H_Johnson
Hmm. I'm somewhat concerned about an apparent attitude of... - if the hardware does "X" (e.g., PCI stalls), the software can't do anything about it Yet the example of X and "non spec" cards appears to be part of a problem that a real time developer needs to... - know about and understand -

[rtl] [Update] licences and patents

2001-02-19 Thread Bernhard Kuhn
Hi everybody! First of all, thank you for your input ... makes things much clearer now! No legal actions prepared = Although there were some roumors and signs, i am very happy to tell you that neither Victor nor Paolo intend to do legal actions against each other:

[rtl] regression tests in v3.0

2001-02-19 Thread Brad Fitzgibbons
I've installed RTLinux v3.0 (2.2.18) and everything appears to be working just fine. However, the thread_app regression test complains that poll (on fifo) is not available. It appears to be implemented in the source so I was just curious if someone might be able to explain it. I'm new to

[rtl] X win and RT problems

2001-02-19 Thread daniel sheltraw
Hello Linux Realtimers I have seen some discussion on the problems X Windows causes with RT scheduling. What are those of you that have abandoned X Windows altogether using in place of Xfree86? Thanks all, Daniel _ Get your FREE

[rtl] RTLinux under 2.4.1 with NOLinux option.

2001-02-19 Thread Christopher D. Carothers
Hi all. Just an fyi, if you want to get the NO LINUX option to work under the 2.4.1 distribution, you need to modify main/reserve_cpu.c . The variable "priority" has been changed in the task_struct to "nice" it seems. With that change rtl.o will build correctly.

Re: [rtl] X win and RT problems

2001-02-19 Thread David Olofson
On Monday 19 February 2001 23:41, daniel sheltraw wrote: Hello Linux Realtimers I have seen some discussion on the problems X Windows causes with RT scheduling. What are those of you that have abandoned X Windows altogether using in place of Xfree86? svgalib, fbdev, or just plain text, I