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Shaolin Zhang wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> anyone have experience of rtlinux from fsmlabs ?

Not rtlinux, but I have got the Nigel Gamble's preemptable kernel patch ported
to MIPS.  This patch shrinks the maximum preemption delay of a process to
single digit of milliseconds.

Unless absolutely necessary, I would think preemptable kernel is a better
real-time approach than rtlinux.

Jun