[rtl] rtl-digest

2000-03-08 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
HI all ! after an intensive fight with sendmail and majordomo , the rtl-digest is up and running , so for those of you that prefere to get digests ,send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe rtl-digest YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS in the body of the mail. thx hofrat

Re: [rtl] RTLinux footprint

2000-03-08 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
I am trying to determine whether some flavor of RT Linux is suitable for my application. Target is based on the AMD Elan chip (x86 system), 1mB pgm memory and flash storage (4MB). Will use PPP to support online target management via SNMP (MIB-based) or WWW (Server based). RT

Re: [rtl] Question about MiniRTL

2000-05-20 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Oi Hofrat, Tobias and all, Hofrat said: miniRTL is glibc 2.0.7 so that IS the cause of the failures I would say . I assume that if you compile a "hello world" on your desk-top system it will segfault at you on minirtl. Ok, but couldn't i compile my program using glibc 2.0.7 in the

[rtl] rtlV2.3 jitter ?

2000-05-20 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi ! rtlinux-2.3/examples/measurement/rt_process.o + monitor platform i486/75 rtlinux 2.3 kernel 2.2.14 egcs 2.91.66 this is what it looks like at the beginning: min: 4526, max:14147 min: 4509, max:13427 min: 4509, max:12656 min:

[rtl] administrativ request to all

2000-05-23 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
HI all ! due to a worldwide paranoia atack , probably caused by the latest M$ related virus problems lots of mail-servers and mail-relay hosts are refusing mails that contain attachements with binarys and/or scripts .Also size limits have been inposed by many mail-servers , so pleas no

Re: [rtl] CdROM

2000-05-27 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Yes. It is called dd(1). If you have a secondary drive you want to copy to: $ dd if=/dev/hd[source drive] of=/dev/hd[dest drive] bs=1024k ie: if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc Will copy the hard drive, boot sector and all, to a similar (or larger) hard drive. You should boot to single-user

Re: [rtl] FORTRAN

2001-02-01 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Out of curiosity, has anyone ever written a real-time task using FORTRAN? It seems all the code I've seen is in C/C++. I ask because I am about to undertake programming in HPF. I don't see how HPF could work out with RTL if the MPI layer is on the non-realtime side. hofrat -- [rtl] --- To

[rtl] rtl@rtlinux.org list policy

2001-02-05 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a technical mailing list. If you have questions regarding RTLinux patent license issues, please send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The proper forum for all non-technical discussions about real-time Linux is the rtl-advocacy list, which was set up for that purpose.

[rtl] Virus sent via rtl@rtlinux.org

2001-02-08 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi all! There has been a virus sent to the list, it was not in an atachment it was in the body and it was small enough to stay below the 40K limit. I'm currently trying to figure out where it actually came from (and why it made it to the list) . Sorry for the mess. have not had that

Re: [rtl] Root privilege

2001-02-16 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi, I just updrate my machine with RTLinux V3 and I got a problem after installing the modules : insrtl lsmod Module Size Used by mbuff 5156 0 (unused) psc18264 0 (unused) rtl_fifo8536 0 [psc]

Re: [rtl] root id

2001-02-22 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
I have installed this files : 521612 -rw-r--r--1 root root 19090206 Feb 14 20:56 linux-2.2.18.tar.gz 521622 -rw-r--r--1 root root 450860 Feb 16 15:10 rtlinux-3.0.tar.gz what ever is going on here I don't think it realy is rtlinux related,

Re: [rtl] Discrete integration algorithms

2001-02-23 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hello all, I want to add an integrator block to DSLib. Could anybody point me to documentation about discrete-time integration algorithms?. Has the simple integration x(t+1)=x(t)+dx*dt an special name or I should call it something like "SimpleIntegrator"?. Thank you. get the

[rtl] policy change

2001-04-20 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi all ! Another virus made it to the list addmitedly this is kind of embarasing , but I have not managed to eliminate the virus post problem. As a temporary solution until we find a scanner that actually does the job the list is set moderated. If anybodys mail does not make it to

[rtl] Outlook VCards

2001-04-25 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi All ! pleas don't attach Outlook VCards to your mails !! Mailhosts are beating me once again - this time for a .vcf in a mail. Although this was no virus or malicious content quite a few mail hosts reject such messages (I realy like M$ features that are then blocked by other M$

Re: [rtl] can RTLinux coexist with Windows 2000 in dual boot?

2001-05-07 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hello, I am about to install RTLinux on a new machine used for surgical simulation, but I am also considering a dual boot with Windows 2000. Is there a difference between RTLinux and standard Linux in terms of a dual boot process? nop, none at all, the only thing you need to be carfull

Re: [rtl] sigprocmask

2001-05-07 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
what is wrong with this? I get a unresolved symbol sigprocmask. I have looked in the header file posix/signal.h and the finktion is there. #include rtl.h #include rtl_time.h #include rtl_sched.h #include time.h #include posix/signal.h #include rtlinux_signal.h hofrat -- [rtl] --- To

Re: [rtl] Maximum Sample Rate using RTLINUX

2001-05-08 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Dear David Olofson, Thank you for nice answer, of course this PPI 8225 card(using 8255 I/O chip with Strobe Mode 1) and without Hardware FIFO/buffer. I only use RT_FIFO. But if you have experience What is the maximum Interrupt Frequencies of RT_IRQ, tell me more. if you realy need very

Re: [rtl] PThread crashing with period=100usec

2001-05-18 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
System is Athlon 550Mhz, RTLinux-3.0, Linux-2.2.18 (XFree 4.0.02, KDE2.1, Suse7.0) could you post the hardware details - especially the Videocard would be of i interrest + what XServer you are using (SVGA,S3 etc). hofrat -- [rtl] --- To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe rtl | mail [EMAIL

Re: [rtl] RTL and linux system calls

2001-05-20 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hell RTers I found the following paragraph at http://www.mysreenu.com/linux_software_design.html. Would someone please tell me whether the last sentence is correct. It was my understanding that anything running under Linux could be prempted by a RT scheduled task under RTLinux.

Re: [rtl] general question about nanosleep, usleep, semaphores and otherwaits.

2001-05-20 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi all This is a general question. When using nanosleep, sem_wait, usleep etc. in RT - threds these funktion is performed as sleep. it meens the thread is suspended until the wakeuptime ore call to sem_post from other thred. thats fine. But what happens withe these funktions is called

[rtl] administrative note

2001-06-01 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi all ! Sorry for a few mails that went out twice - thats a local pop problem and I was not checking for duplicate mails only for viruses and other garbage .. There should be no further duplicate mails to the list (I hope) if there are drop me a note at [EMAIL PROTECTED] directly pleas.

[rtl] admin note

2001-06-21 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi all ! pleas don't send messages as text AND html (as quite a few mailers obviously do...) - besids there being no point in doing this I get lots of them back with complaints that they contain invalid or potentially malicious content what ever genius designed this e-mail security

Re: [rtl] booting from flashdisk

2001-06-23 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hello all- I have been fighting with the booting from a flash disk using initrd and a ramdisk. I have now gotten to where it boots the kernel without any problems, and gets to init. However I get the following error: INIT: version 2.76 booting INIT: cannot execute /etc/rc.d/rc.S

[rtl] Re: starting kernel modules under RTLinux

2001-06-23 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
In a RTLinux-based program I've written, I load a real-time kernel module: system(rtlinux start mymod.o); insmod NAME.o only looks in ./ ! In order to allow access to this program anywhere on the system, I put the calling program and the kernel module in a directory that's listed

[rtl] BOUNCE rtl@rtlinux.org: Non-member submission from [David Olofsondavid.olofson@reologica.se] (fwd)

2001-07-02 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
On Saturday 30 June 2001 22:20, Bond, Richard M wrote: David, I have a trick I've used under some RT OS's. I've created an environment variable to make a single value available. For examples I could set NSAMPLES=2000, and any task can request the value to use to control something. It's

[rtl] BOUNCE rtl@rtlinux.org: Non-member submission from [ted webmaster@bnnnstwn.freeserve.co.uk](fwd)

2001-07-02 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Approved: rtl.pass From owner-rtl Sun Jul 1 22:46:59 2001 Received: from mail12.svr.pol.co.uk (mail12.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.193.215]) by hq.fsmlabs.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f624kwh29076 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 22:46:58 -0600 Received: from

Re: [rtl] PC/104 Pentium Class CPU Board Recommendations

2002-02-26 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Dear List, I am currently seeking a Pentium class PC/104 board for an updated controller for an existing product. We are currently using a board with a National Geode chip, which appears to be problematic for Linux / RTLinux. Has anyone found a good PC/104 board for RTLinux?

Re: [rtl] PC/104 Pentium Class CPU Board Recommendations

2002-02-27 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi Could u please tell, whats's the problem with National Geode chip. Thanks and Regards chandu maby others ahve better experience with the Geode - would be interested to here what others found. From the documentation and the benchmarks of the system it does look like a

Re: [rtl] [off-topic] Via C3

2002-02-28 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
[Charset iso-8859-2 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] Hi all, has anybody tried to boot a 2.4.x kernel with a VIA C3 processor? I've tried 2.4.8 and 2.4.16 and machine reboots before kernel has been successfully loaded. Motherboard is MSI-6368 yup - 2.4.7, had no

Re: RV: [rtl] Memory Management

2002-03-05 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hola Ramon, You can start learning about it with these books: - Linux Device Drivers by Alessandro Rubini, published by O'Reilly Associates. it's also available online http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/index.html hofrat -- [rtl] --- To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe

Re: [rtl] PC/104 Pentium Class CPU Board Recommendations

2002-03-09 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The latencies show up in both the RTLinux scheduling test and the timer test. True, but you cannot be sure if it comes from your soft- or hardware. There have also been reported long latencies which come from some weird X or framebuffer

Re: [rtl] EXT3 and RTLinux

2002-03-11 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Here is a little history of my setup. I applied the RTLinux 3.1 kernel patch for 2.2.19. All rtlinux modules work fine, depmod -ae reports no mossing symbols. I have found and installed a patch for kernel 2.2.19 that enables ext3 filesystem. ext3 works fine But I can't load the

Re: [rtl] RTLinux for control of mobile robots

2002-03-13 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi all, What are advantages of using RTLinux over other OS like windows for control of mobile robots through internet. if you compare it to windoes - obviously security . If you want to put your robot on the internet you better make shure you have that link under control. A further argument

Re: [rtl] eth0 not started while booting rtlinux-3.1

2002-03-13 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
hi : I have installed rtlinux-3.1 on Redhat 7.1 compilied with 2.4.4 kernel. I am unable to connect to network thru eth0 interface. Can you throw some light as what going on..? I tried to add : /sbin/modprobe eth0 to file /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit at the end.. no

Re: [rtl] RTLinux with Qt/Embedded

2002-03-13 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Dear All, Any good ideas on how RTLinux could work together with Qt/Embedded on an embedded system? Thank a lot. in what respect does it NOT work together ?? use QT for what ever you need and grab any data that a real-time p_thread provides via rt-FIFO or shared memory (mbuff). hofrat --

Re: [rtl] RTLinux with Qt/Embedded

2002-03-14 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
In an attempt to improve the responsiveness of my supervisory conventional Linux process, I compile the conventional Linux kernel with 1000 HZ time slices and run a ITIMMER_REAL interval timer / signal Basically thats ok to do but just be aware, that this can break some drivers ! So if

Re: [rtl] Regarding RT Fifos

2002-04-02 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi, Has anybody got any idea, how to flush or clean RT-FIFO. from within an rt-thread: rtf_flush(FIFO_NR); hofrat -- [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: [rtl] rtlinux, 2.4.18 patch problem

2002-04-25 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi, I'm trying to build rtl3.1 against the pucker 2.4.18 kernel on a RH7.2 system non-smp athlon - the patches applied cleanly but the kernel complie fails with unresolved 'atomic_dec_lock' symbol ! Has anyone seen/fixed this problem || am I doing somthing stupid? what? there are a few

Re: [rtl] OpenRTLLinux and miniRTL

2002-04-25 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
I'm a bit new to RT programming and found this link to OpenRTL. I've read the doc ( as much as possible ) but still have a very general question. Suppose the following: [1] I purchase the OpenRTL/GPL for $50. [2] Get it installed, etc, etc, etc. [3] Can I think create, compile, and

Re: [rtl] Problems building for miniRTL

2002-04-26 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi everyone, I've been having trouble building on our local RTLinux machine for use on miniRTL and hoped someone could help. Let me explain... During execution I find the program is executed in listed sequence irrespective of the main function - if a function is listed above main it

Re: [rtl] Problem in compileing application on RTLinux.

2002-04-27 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi ! Please help me in this matter . I installed RTlinux-3.1 on linux kernel-2.4.4 . 1.first i installed REDHAT 7.1 on my x86 pc. 2.I created a new dir. at /usr/src as rtlinux. 3. i copied linux-kernel.2.4.4.tar and rtlinux-3.1.tar to /usr/src/rtlinux and i untared both

[rtl] 2.4.18 patch

2002-05-04 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi ! there was a permissions problem on rtlinux.org so one could not download Todd Gearheart patch - that should be solved now. Find it at ftp://ftp.rtlinux.org/pub/rtlinux/gearheart/ Rippols Patch can be found at http://bernia.disca.upv.es/rtportal/apps/upgrades/ Ulli Hochholdinger

Re: [rtl] about interrupt mechanism(rtl_core.c)

2002-05-04 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hello Since I know the rtlinux interrupt handler will execute with interrupt disabled, i traced the source code rtl_core.c and found that the do_IRQ function will be replaced with the rtl_intercept function while loading the rtl.o module . There's one thing confusing

Re: [rtl] FW: UP patch for 2.4.18 RTL3.1

2002-05-05 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Are there any plans for an SMP patch? plans... - but first we need UP cleaned up for 2.4.16/18 and then one can go for SMP - if you want to dig into that let me know so that one can coordinate efforts. Currently we need to get LOCAL_APIC working on UP to have that clean. hofrat -- [rtl]

Re: [rtl] NIC and rtl_hard_enable_irq

2002-05-06 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
hello , everyone i wonder to know is there anyone use the rtl_hard_enable_irq() successfully in a realtime ISR handling interrupts from an ethernet card ? could you post a bit of additional info What NIC ? code sample of the interrupt handler also a bit more details

Re: [rtl] 2.4.18 patch

2002-05-06 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi... Im new to trl. Could someone explain the differences between the patches from these people? they simply were worked on independantly, pleas test them and report any problems you find to the authors and the list. currently it looks like they both do quite the same as both 2.4.18

Re: [rtl] Running RTLinux as a non root user

2002-05-09 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hello to everybody, I'm a student doing a final career project and I have two problems when I work with RTLinux as a non-root user. Let me tell you that I have changed insmod, and rmmod priorities, in order to allow non-root users to install modules. The first problem is that when

Re: [rtl] NIC and rtl_hard_enable_irq

2002-05-09 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
I found that the rtl_hard_enable_irq() has no problem. because if i use like bottom .. it won't crash. It's a module counting received interrupts. When it got 4 interrupts, append it to linux. Are you shure that this works ?? If it does you have very tolerant hardware...

Re: [rtl] Build Errors

2002-05-09 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi All, Iam a absolute newbie to rtlinux. I have downloaded the prepatched RTLinux kernel 2.4 from fsmlabs.com and when I try to build it I get the following errors checksum.S:238 badly punctuated parameter list in #define checksum.S:244 badly punctuated parameter list in #define

Re: [rtl] Memory usage by an application

2002-05-10 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi, Is there any system call in RTLinux which can show the memory status (memory used by an application, and the amount of memory free) in kernel space ? not directly - but as we are allocating all memory resources in linux kernel context it updates the internal memory information so

Re: [rtl] Ethernet doesn't work after upgrading kernel to 2.2.19

2002-05-10 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi, I am wondering if some one out there can give me some help. I have problems with the Ethernet card after I upgrade kernel from 2.2.14-5.0 to 2.2.19 for RedHat-6.2. My Ethernet card is 3Com 3C905B. 1). if I boot to kernel-2.2.14-5.0, using ifconfig, I can see the eth0, lo. Using

Re: [rtl] Basic questions about RTL driver writing

2002-05-14 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Greetings all, I am a recent college grad with a new job and have been assigned to write a driver for a frame grabber that must meet certain real-time constraints. Since I have only a basic understanding of how all this stuff works, I have a few questions for the experts. 1. I

Re: [rtl] Porting minirtl to floppy : Problem of root

2002-05-16 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
hi all I have been trying to put minirtl-3.0 on floppy. For that I have followed steps to put an OS on floppy. fine. But the application that i want to put up on floppy along with the OS requires 7 FIFOs. So for that matter i have tried modifying the root.rtldev.mk ( under config

Re: [rtl] DAQ board access in RTlinux

2002-05-17 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hello, I am working on a project in which I must use RTLinux as real time support to implement a modem. I have already made a program working on normal linux which simulates the process and now I must port it to RTLinux. I will use dac/adc boards to get data in and out the pc. The

Re: [rtl]

2002-05-17 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
hi all, i am developing a data acquiring program on rtlinux 3.1,and need to tranmit a large amount of data between the rt process and non_rt process at high speed,so try to find the most efficient way of communication. After trying fifo,mbuff and share memory pool (putting aside

[rtl] request for infos

2002-05-20 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
HI all! To get the web-page for RTLinux/GPL cleaned up I would ask all that have drivers/docs/project-descriptions that they would like to have made available on rtlinux.org under GPL License to send me these infos/links to get going again. For drivers: Download/Home-page URL Author:

Re: [rtl] I am confused with moving the PCI driver into rt-kernel!

2002-05-20 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
We need to do some serial communication with PCI Rs485 card under RTLinux. Now I move the driver into the RT-kernel. But I am really confused with something. I wish somebody can give me some explanation. 1.The driver should be used under RTLinux, can I call some kernel funtions like

Re: [rtl] Problem using glibc 2.0.7 in MiniRTL with User Space App.

2002-05-21 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi, All, With reference to booting rtlinux from floppy, there is a small problem that I have encountered. My user space application has been developed with glibc 2.1.3, but minirtl has version 2.0.7 right? The application runs well on desktop system, but gives error: Segmentation Fault

Re: [rtl] time is delayed with rt tasks

2002-05-21 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi, When you run RT tasks, rtlinux does not seam to adjust the computer time , this means that when you have rt tasks running, you can not use computer time sinc it is not accurated . Example : after one day running , my computer time is 20 minutes late !!! I would like to know if

Re: [rtl] FW: ARM????

2002-05-21 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Does anyone plane RT support for SA-1110 StrongARM processors? Check out http://www.imec.be/rtlinux for a port done at the IMEC for rtlinux-3.0 There als is a rtlinuxpro port for the current rtlinuxpro version from fsmlabs.com as a comercial product with support. hofrat -- [rtl] ---

Re: [rtl] a question about my project on rtlinux

2002-05-22 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi, all! My English is very poor, perhaps can't express the whole thing clearly, but I will try ¡­ I am trying to use the rtlinux in our collecting data project. The OS now used is Windows98/NT4.0, Pentium¢ó 667MHz processor, the capture speed desired is 8Mbyte/s, interrupt periodic 10ms,

Re: [rtl] Regarding Linux 2.4.4 and RH 7.2 with ext3.

2002-05-23 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
hello, did anybody find a solution to the problem of having ext3 for linux 2.4.4. is there a patch available for it? if so, where??? For 2.4.4 you need ext3-0.9.1 but ext3 was experimental for 2.4.4 and I don't know where the patches are available (search for ext3-2.4-0.9.1 or

Re: [rtl]Attch: problem in compiling application with glibc.2.0.7 onMiniRtl

2002-05-23 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
This is your problem. hello: gcc -Wall -nostdlib -L/tmp/glibc-2.0.7/ -lc -O2 -o hello hello.c it is not finding libgcc so it can't find the _start symbol and other things... ---hello/Makefile--- all:hello # # Set this to your glibc-2.0.7 copy or pass it on the command line #

Re: [rtl] A Challenging IRQ problem! How to?

2002-05-23 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
My PCI card has two ports. You know they should share the irq and ISR in its RTLinux driver and just can use rtl_request_irq once. Each port has diffirent kernel space for data to store. now I want the ISR to know which port produced the interrupt. so that the data can be put into the right

Re: [rtl] Regarding Linux 2.4.4 and RH 7.2 with ext3.

2002-05-23 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
don't forget that you also need to update your ext2fsprogs aswell. You are probably better off updating your kernel to a 2.4.16/18 if you realy need/want ext3. Hi, just some ranting: and what if I'd like to use SMP? AFAIK all patches against 2.4.16 and 2.4.18 are single-processor

Re: [rtl] Regarding Linux 2.4.4 and RH 7.2 with ext3.

2002-05-23 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Parag Shah wrote: hello, did anybody find a solution to the problem of having ext3 for linux 2.4.4. is there a patch available for it? if so, where??? Well I've fully workable RTLinux 2.4.19-pre8 I'll probably make some annoucement tomorrow I've been testing this

Re: [rtl] Regarding Linux 2.4.4 and RH 7.2 with ext3.

2002-05-24 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi, just some ranting: and what if I'd like to use SMP? AFAIK all patches against 2.4.16 and 2.4.18 are single-processor only... good note - get SMP working again - if you have time to support this it would be great - let me know what you can/want to do and lets get this

Re: [rtl] Timing analysis of a RTLinux application

2002-05-27 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi, I want to calculate the total execution time of a RTLinux application. Can any body suggest about any tool to calculate the execution time. you could compile to assembler code and then add up the individual worst case cycle times - but that will give you a much wors execution time than

Re: [rtl] FW: Internal counter access

2002-05-27 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi, This is Sreenivasa from Honeywell. I am currently working on RTOE and have to do the performance test of RTOE. That is, the time needed for each API calls. Since the time taken for the execution of the APIs are in micro/nano seconds, I need functions in C which gives time in

[rtl] Re: your mail

2002-05-27 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Dear Mr. i want to boot my pc without hard or floppy disk , if you have information about how i can do that, plz help me. my idea is to change the boot option for BIOS and switch it to a special address that contain my code instead of booting from floppy or hard disk. For booting

[rtl] checking majordomo setup - ignore

2002-06-02 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
hofrat -- [rtl] --- To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe rtl | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR echo unsubscribe rtl Your_email | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For more information on Real-Time Linux see: http://www.rtlinux.org/

Re: [rtl] acos available ?

2002-06-03 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi, Is there a way to use acos() in kernel ? yup - statically link libm into your kernel module, check the examples/fp/Makefile to see how this is done. hofrat -- [rtl] --- To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe rtl | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR echo unsubscribe rtl Your_email | mail [EMAIL

Re: [rtl] RTlinux on MIPS

2002-06-04 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
I solved my RTlinux on MIPS problem. If you may recall I was trying to get RTLinux working on an NEC VR4181 processor, but was stopped when I discovered there was no released kernel tree for it. So I spent the last two weeks getting RTAI up and running and it now works great, as ported to

Re: [rtl] Writing RTL PCI card drivers

2002-06-05 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi Brian, It's better you see the existing PCI device driver in /usr/src/linux/drivers/ directory. E.g. PCI ethernet card, you can see how to detect the base address, irq, registers, etc. Starting with PCI drivers from the Linux tree is not realy that helpfull I belive, as the structure

Re: [rtl] /proc entries

2002-06-05 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Are there any known issues with reading from or writing to /proc entries in RTLinux? writing to proc entries is not realy an issue, but reading from them (which generally is not that good an idea any way) needs some way of synchronizing data, or you get inconsisten data if the update on

Re: [rtl] Writing RTL PCI card drivers

2002-06-05 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Not much different from doing it under Linux. Your module initialization function where you do all the PCI init will look pretty much identical to a Linux driver, except that you'll call rtl_request_irq instead of request_irq, if you install an interrupt handler. And the RTLinux

Re: [rtl] rtlinux 10us limit

2002-06-05 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hello. I installed RTLinux on my AMDk6 430 MHZ with 128 Mb RAM and up to now I've just been probing with the example programs. I have tried the hello.c with various thread periods and observed that when I try periods of less than 10us my system crashes. Is this a normal limit? Is it a

Re: [rtl] FFT functions in RTLinux

2002-06-05 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hello. I need to call fft (fast fourier transform) functions in my rtthreads. I found in the internet a packet of fft functions called FFTW which I've been using in normal linux without any problems. FFTW uses math functions so you must be link your programs with -lm, in addition to

Re: [rtl] distributions

2002-06-06 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
hi all which linux distribution would you choose if you got to compile/use a kernel from kernel.org (as you have to when using rtlinux) ? you might not have to - in fact I patched rtlinux-3.0/3.1 into the SuSE and RH patched kernels and it worked - but taking a clean kernel from kernel.org

Re: [rtl] Is there RTlinux(GPL) supporting Strongarm??

2002-06-07 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
hi everybody.. iam very new to RTLinux. Do any one know ..whether there is an open source RTLinux supporting Intel's Strong arm processor..If it does exists..where can i get it from?? The IMEC in .be did a RTLinux/GPL strongarm port for V3.0 http://www.imec.be/rtlinux/

Re: [rtl] RTL drivers for Diamond DMM-32-AT and RMM-1612-XT

2002-06-07 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
I'm looking at using the Diamond Systems I/O boards (DMM-32-AT for inputs, RMM-1612-XT for outputs) on an RTL system. Has anyone written drivers for these boards? Can anyone recommend similar boards that might plug into RTL a little easier? Thanks. peter wurmsdobler has set up some

Re: [rtl] RT Linux on PC104

2002-06-07 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hello I am a student of Mechanical Engineering Department. For driving a controller, I need to generate a pulse of about 50Hz frequency. I intend to use rtlinux for the same. The problem is that I have to use a PC104 card for generating the pulse, so there is a memory restriction of

Re: [rtl] large latency with 2.4.18+rtl3.1?

2002-06-10 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
I've tried to use Mr. Gearheart's patch for Kernel 2.4.18 and rtlinux-3.1, found on ftp.fsmlabs.com/pub/rtlinux/contrib/gearheart/. Mostly it went smooth, but I've found strange behaviour. I would like to get some information about this. I've used NI's 8176(PentiumIII-S 1.26GHz, 128MByte)

Re: [rtl] RTlinux-3.1 on Redhat 7.2 with ext3 filesystem

2002-06-12 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hello Everybody: I have recently upgraded from RTlinux-3.1 running on Redhat 7.1 to Redhat 7.1 with ext3 support. I am facing problem with ext3 file system, for its unable to mount all files system like /usr, /etc/ , /var ,etc. when trying to load rtlinux-3.1 boot image( rtzImage). I

Re: [rtl] Memory lock for real-time task

2002-06-12 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Khoa Nguyen wrote: I remember reading on the FSMLabs web-site that RTLinux users can start a process in user space _then_ somehow call RTLinux API to make the task real-time and have all of its memory pages locked down. Does anyone know if this feature is available

Re: [rtl] RTLinux on SA1100

2002-06-14 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi all, has anyone made RTLinux work on LART which is a SA1100 implementation. Also, when i insert RTLinux module into the standard Linux kernel, it loads properly and works... But after loading RTL, any Linux process if i run causes the system to hang and nothing works but a

[rtl] psc patch from dave i.

2002-06-18 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
HI all ! The patch for psc from Dave i. [EMAIL PROTECTED] to fix the initialization of sys_ni_syscall and the way hook_free_syscall() locates the free syscalls. (regression test passes without errors now...) ftp://ftp.fsmlabs.at/pub/rtlinux/contrib/dave/rtlinux-3.1-2.4.4-psc.patch thx !

Re: [rtl] latency in example programs

2002-06-21 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi all, I am running RTLinux 3.1 on Linux 2.4.18 (+Gearheart patch) on a Pentium 3 933 MHz machine. Running the sample program measurements gives me numbers I cannot explain: The simple answer is that there are hardware combinations that are not suited for RT. ... start tasks, good

Re: [rtl] Searching driver for Advantech PCI-1712

2002-06-22 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hello all. I am looking for RTLinux drivers for DAQ board Advantech PCI-1712. Comedi doesn't support it so I would be very grateful if someone could show me where I can find drivers for it. Check out peter wurmsdobler rtdaq drivers for RTLinux - not exactly for that card but it contains

Re: [rtl] CPU Load measure for the RTLinux tasks

2002-06-23 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
With a little example, perhaps it could be easier to understand what I want to know... First I'm interested with the RT tasks side. Imagine, I've 2 tasks : - first cyclic task at 10 ms (priority +) - second cyclic task at 100 ms (priority -) If my first task take 8 ms to execute

Re: [rtl] Searching driver for Advantech PCI-1712

2002-06-24 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Sounds interesting, but: rtdaq.tar.bz2 is only readable by root on that server. :( sorry - fixed ftp://ftp.fsmlabs.at/pub/rtlinux/contrib/peterw/rtdaq.tar.bz2 hofrat -- [rtl] --- To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe rtl | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR echo unsubscribe rtl Your_email | mail [EMAIL

Re: [rtl] CPU Load measure for the RTLinux tasks

2002-06-26 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
You could have each task set a parallel port bit high during execution and set it low again just before it returns. If you can look at all of the bits at once using a 4 channel scope or logic analyzer if there are more than 4 tasks. This would give you a complete picture of what was running

Re: [rtl] using egcs to compile kernel

2002-06-27 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
I'm trying to install RTLinux over an existing RedHat installation. I installed egcs-2.90 to use for compilation (instead of the native redhat-gcc). I'd like to know as to what changes need to be made in the Makefile for the kernel (/usr/src/Makefile) so as to have the egcs compiler used

Re: [rtl] rtlinux installing help?

2002-07-06 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi: I'm a newer to rtlinux. When i have finished installing the rtlinux according to the installation.pdf from the ww.fsmlabs.com step by step, i can't load the rtlinux modules, that is when i input the command -rtlinux start, system can not detect the trl_time.o and just tell

Re: [rtl] PCI Interrupt Handling

2002-07-06 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Dear Friends, I am sending a mail after a long time. I am facing a problem now. Please help me to come out of this. Environment: RT-Linux - Version 3.1 Linux- 2.4.16 with RT patch from contribution Hardware Pentium III - 700 MHz 128 MB SDRAM 40GB

Re: [rtl] problem in rtlinux installation

2002-07-06 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi all, I am a newbie for RTLinux, as well as kernel compiling. I am running linux RH7.2 on SMP machine. I presently have two kernels by default - 2.4.7-10 and 2.4.7-10smp. I am going to compile a new one for RTLinux, so I downloaded linux 2.4.4. kernel and rtlinux-3.1, followed all

Re: [rtl] Inexplicably realtime violations - need help

2002-07-07 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi! First of all: Thanks for your hints, but... I'm using the same ethernet-controller (eepro100) and no frame-buffer devices. The problem also occurs in runlevel 1 with no ethernet driver loaded. There are no modules except the rtl-ones... I'm running no X-windows! Does anybody

Re: [rtl] problem in allocating memory in kernel

2002-07-07 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 6:07 AM Subject: [rtl] problem in allocating memory in kernel hi,all In my program, memory (by using kmalloc) is allocated to form a chain table in kernel(RTLinux v3.1): code in kernel: int

[rtl] BOUNCE rtl@rtlinux.org: Approval required: (fwd)

2002-07-07 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
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[rtl] checking moderation - pleas ignore

2002-07-08 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
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