From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <434E6E89.8060904@domain.hid> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:26:17 +0200 From: Jan Kiszka MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] A couple of questions References: <18969.193.52.24.125.1129211788.squirrel@domain.hid> In-Reply-To: <18969.193.52.24.125.1129211788.squirrel@domain.hid> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig92FA6CC888FA0189077DB4F5" List-Id: Help regarding installation and common use of Xenomai List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: smannori Cc: xenomai@xenomai.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig92FA6CC888FA0189077DB4F5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit smannori wrote: > Hi everybody: > > I think that this fork is a very good opportunity to "start with the > right foot". I believe also that a document like > > https://mail.rtai.org/pipermail/rtai/2005-June/011949.html > > but with Fusion/Xenomai it would be a very good starting point for a > relatively inexperienced user. What I do until now: > - I dowloaded, adeos-patched, configured & compiled kernel 2.6.13.4 > - I downloaded, configured, installed fusion 0.9.1 > - I run sucessfull all the [testsuite] examples > - I dowloaded all the pdf(s) > > Now the questions: > 1) it is important dowload and install fusion OR xenomai ? Fusion-0.9.1 is, so to say, the current release of Xenomai. Xenomai 2.0 will be the next one soon. > 2) why the xenomai files are so old (2002) ? That version are pre-fusion actually. Latest Xenomai is only available via subversion checkout, see https://gna.org/projects/xenomai > 3) I think that a very important PDF file - already present in the past > in www.rtai.org - is missed: the Fusion tutorial with examples. Some are already there (http://download.gna.org/xenomai/documentation). Please report precisely what you are lacking. > 4) where I can find some Fusion/Xenomai examples, complete of instruction > to compile and link to create standalone applications ? For which skin, i.e. for which user API (native, POSIX, classic RTAI)? Also check the /doc folders in the skins source code directories. > 5) how is it possible to use Comedi driver ? Maybe with some (or more) adaptions in combination with the RTAI compatibility skin. Out ouf the box: not yet. On the long term, it would be good to port Comedi over the RTDM layer, thus also enabling a reuse under other real-time Linux variants. This would reduce the burden for Comedi to adapt itself to differen APIs. That's a kind of discussion for xenomai-core BTW. ;) > 6) how port xrtailab under Xenomai/Fusion ? Don't know details about it, but the first step could again be the RTAI skin. > 7) it is possible use USB device (eg. camera) realtime ? USB4RT is a (currently dormant) project to provide low-level USB access. We have a special camera driver for the stack here. Other devices would require a port (Do you have a native Linux driver for the desired camera?). Moreover, USB4RT will first require a cleanup adaption to the latest developement around Fusion/Xenomai, e.g. a port over the RTDM layer. Scheduled, but I cannot give any dates for this. Jan --------------enig92FA6CC888FA0189077DB4F5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDTm6JncNeS9Q0k+IRAmKGAKCQ9Bi/RS1M55YsGikAB5g1C1etywCgreAa EcMTr9l0FPCsLuvS33wW/PI= =OHuw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig92FA6CC888FA0189077DB4F5--