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- From: johnsonm@lars.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (Michael K. Johnson)
- Subject: Re: real time
- In-Reply-To: quandt@cs.umr.edu's message of Sun, 3 Jan 1993 05:41:59 GMT
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- Organization: St. Olaf College; Northfield, MN USA
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:12:29 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan3.054159.11008@umr.edu> quandt@cs.umr.edu (Brian Quandt) writes:
- What can anyone say about linux and real time support? Same
- question applies to 386bsd. I tend to believe that this concept
- would not be possible. The reason being is that this (I believe)
- is a fundamental design change in how the kernal works. However,
- if anyone has information to the contrary please let me know.
-
- Well, actually, for some "real-time" applications, linux makes a lot
- of sense, essentially because it has very low overhead in general.
-
- However, it would not take a "fundamental design change in how the
- kernel works" to make linux a /good/ RTOS. If I don't get a part time
- job next semester, I hope to work towards a version of linux with full
- support for RT operations.
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- Linux-RT would of course have deadlines and all that, but the fun
- thing would be that you might be able to choose a schduler at
- compile-time with a simple conditional. I have lots of ideas.
-
- The neat thing about Linux-RT would be that because of the source code
- availability, several compromises wouldn't have to be made.
-
- I would also be documenting all this.
-
- So, is there anyone who would actually use this if I were to do it?
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- michaelkjohnson
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