Re: [rtl] Re: [realtime] ESC attendence ... ?

2001-04-13 Thread Cort Dougan
Please, don't neglect our tireless efforts to sacrifice babies as well... } Because they are not a "real" company, just a couple of people hoping to } reap dot-com profits from a patent based on ancient prior art. Do not } confuse them with any of the for-profit RT Linux outfits with real }

[rtl] Re: [realtime] ESC attendence ... ?

2001-04-13 Thread Cort Dougan
We did attend. Rather, I did. } Why doesn't FSMLabs attend ESCs to make their realtime variant of Linux } more visible? -- [rtl] --- To unsubscribe: echo "unsubscribe rtl" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR echo "unsubscribe rtl Your_email" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For more information on Real-Time

Re: [realtime] Re: [rtl] ESC attendence ... ?

2001-04-13 Thread Peter Cavender
The discerning audience pays no heed to your specious, dangerous patent claims. Do you yet have a coherent statement regarding your alledged patent(s), the preponderance of prior art, and whether RTAI is within the scope of your patent? :-( On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're

[rtl] Re: [realtime] ESC attendence ... ?

2001-04-13 Thread Peter Cavender
Because they are not a "real" company, just a couple of people hoping to reap dot-com profits from a patent based on ancient prior art. Do not confuse them with any of the for-profit RT Linux outfits with real products, or any of the GPL patriots that are working on real-time support. All they

[rtl] Why RTLinux?

2001-04-13 Thread Mukaila olundegun
Dear and Fellow Engineers I received an invitation to give a lecture on RTLinux (i.e to support why I recommend the use of RTLinux). Though there are common sense like free royalty, availability of source code already in CD-ROM or at RTLinux related web site. But, what I really want to

Re: [rtl] Re: [realtime] ESC attendence ... ?

2001-04-13 Thread David Schleef
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 01:36:59AM -0400, Peter Cavender wrote: Because they are not a "real" company, just a couple of people hoping to reap dot-com profits from a patent based on ancient prior art. Do not confuse them with any of the for-profit RT Linux outfits with real products, or any

Re: [rtl] Is everyone still receiving OGJFAFOG.exe files from ....

2001-04-13 Thread Kai Mueller
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 01:25:29AM -0400, Robert Warner wrote: I keep getting attachments of OGJAFOGx.exe from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I believe this to be a virus (haven't checked it and do not plan on doing so). Why would I (we) be continuing to receive this junk. I have all the previous

Re: [rtl] Why RTLinux?

2001-04-13 Thread Ivan Martinez
You may want to complicate things by considering RTAI... ;-) www.rtai.org - Original Message - From: "Mukaila olundegun" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Real Time Linux" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 8:40 AM Subject: [rtl] Why RTLinux? Dear and Fellow Engineers I received

[rtl] RTAI scheduling

2001-04-13 Thread Alex Plouznikoff
Hi, I was wandering if anyone had a brief description of the rt_task_struct variables in rtai_sched.h. There is absolutly no comments in this file. Futhermore, what's the difference between the rt_schedule() and rt_timer_handler() functions. Thanks. Alex

Re: [rtl] RTAI scheduling

2001-04-13 Thread Erwin Rol
Alex Plouznikoff wrote: Hi, I was wandering if anyone had a brief description of the rt_task_struct variables in rtai_sched.h. There is absolutly no comments in this file. Thats not true, there are atleast 5 lines of comments ;-) I think the idea is that you use the (well documented) API

[rtl] Linux equivalents to pthread_make_periodic_np and pthread_suspend_np

2001-04-13 Thread Ivan Martinez
Hello all: I'm trying to make DSLib v2 generate adecuatedsystem calls depending on it beingLinux, RTLinux, or RTAI. I'm looking in the Linux threads functions and I don't see any equivalent to pthread_make_periodic_np and pthread_suspend_np. Is there any?. If not, how can I performsuch

[rtl] Video Card Problems - Which Cards are Black Listed?

2001-04-13 Thread Stephen D. Cohen
Gang, I recall a few weeks back hearing about some black listed video cards due to driver problems in X11R4 (and possibly other versions). As I am about to buy a new laptop, I just want to check to see if the one I am planning to purchase will have this problem. I am looking at

Re: [rtl] Linux equivalents to pthread_make_periodic_np and pthread_suspend_np

2001-04-13 Thread David Schleef
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 09:22:14PM +0200, Ivan Martinez wrote: Hello all: I'm trying to make DSLib v2 generate adecuated system calls depending on it being Linux, RTLinux, or RTAI. I'm looking in the Linux threads functions and I don't see any equivalent to pthread_make_periodic_np and

[rtl] RTAI scheduler - Part 2

2001-04-13 Thread Alex Plouznikoff
Hi, I'm trying to understand the RTAI scheduler (rt_schedule()). Could anyone help ? RT_TASK *task, *new_task; RTIME intr_time, now; int prio, delay, preempt; task = new_task = rt_linux_task; // SETTING DEFAULT PRIORITY TO LINUX PRIORITY ? prio = RT_LINUX_PRIORITY; //ONESHOT mode if

Re: [rtl] Linux equivalents to pthread_make_periodic_np and pthread_suspend_np

2001-04-13 Thread Bernhard Kuhn
David Schleef schrieb: It can be duplicated using something similar to the attached file. select() is not bad, but you can't guarantee a stable period (means a delay is propagated to the following periods). For this reason, i prefer pthread_cond_timedwait() (see file attached). Suspending

Re: [rtl] Linux equivalents to pthread_make_periodic_np and pthread_suspend_np

2001-04-13 Thread yodaiken
I've come to like pthread_cond_wait, although I admit that I found it disgusting until recently -- when I wrote some applications where it was quite pleasant. On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 02:43:03AM +0200, Bernhard Kuhn wrote: David Schleef schrieb: It can be duplicated using something similar