[Xenomai-core] Newbies developer instructions

2007-08-29 Thread Ravid Baruch Naali
Hello Xenomai-core mailing list, I'm eager to contribute to the Xenomai project, but since I could not find any opened bugs or a detailed task list apart from: http://www.xenomai.org/index.php/TaskMarket I was wondering if there is way for newbies like me to get involved? If any of you can

Re: [Xenomai-core] Newbies developer instructions

2007-08-29 Thread Jan Kiszka
Ravid Baruch Naali wrote: Hello Xenomai-core mailing list, I'm eager to contribute to the Xenomai project, but since I could not find any opened bugs or a detailed task list apart from: http://www.xenomai.org/index.php/TaskMarket I was wondering if there is way for newbies like me to

Re: [Xenomai-core] Newbies developer instructions

2007-08-29 Thread Ravid Baruch Naali
Thanks Jan, I'm working on an academic course which I will teach next semester on Real Time system, in which I will bring both VxWorks and Xenomai as Hard RT systems as an example. Therefore it will be only natural for me to work on porting some examples to VxWorks skin at first. My plan is to

Re: [Xenomai-core] Newbies developer instructions

2007-08-29 Thread Jan Kiszka
Ravid Baruch Naali wrote: Thanks Jan, I'm working on an academic course which I will teach next semester on Real Time system, in which I will bring both VxWorks and Xenomai as Hard RT systems as an example. Therefore it will be only natural for me to work on porting some examples to

[Xenomai-core] RTDM timeout value

2007-08-29 Thread Markus Osterried (BA/EDD)
Hi, it seems that in the RTDM API, all the timeout functions which use nanosecs_rel_t have a strange behaviour. The timeout in nanoseconds is converted to ticks and the number of ticks is rounded down. So when we want to wait e.g. 50 nanoseconds and the timertick is 1 ms, xnpod_ns2ticks()

Re: [Xenomai-core] RTDM timeout value

2007-08-29 Thread Jan Kiszka
Markus Osterried (BA/EDD) wrote: Hi, it seems that in the RTDM API, all the timeout functions which use nanosecs_rel_t have a strange behaviour. The timeout in nanoseconds is converted to ticks and the number of ticks is rounded down. So when we want to wait e.g. 50 nanoseconds and the

Re: [Xenomai-core] RTDM timeout value

2007-08-29 Thread Gilles Chanteperdrix
On 8/29/07, Philippe Gerum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 16:32 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: Markus Osterried (BA/EDD) wrote: Hi, it seems that in the RTDM API, all the timeout functions which use nanosecs_rel_t have a strange behaviour. The timeout in nanoseconds is

Re: [Xenomai-core] RTDM timeout value

2007-08-29 Thread Philippe Gerum
On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 16:32 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: Markus Osterried (BA/EDD) wrote: Hi, it seems that in the RTDM API, all the timeout functions which use nanosecs_rel_t have a strange behaviour. The timeout in nanoseconds is converted to ticks and the number of ticks is rounded

Re: [Xenomai-core] RTDM timeout value

2007-08-29 Thread Jan Kiszka
Philippe Gerum wrote: On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 16:32 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: Markus Osterried (BA/EDD) wrote: Hi, it seems that in the RTDM API, all the timeout functions which use nanosecs_rel_t have a strange behaviour. The timeout in nanoseconds is converted to ticks and the number of