Re: [Xenomai-help] newbie question

[Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>]

Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Philippe Gerum wrote:
> 
>>Daniele Lugli wrote:
>>
>>>Hello all,
>>>I am new to xenomai although I have already used rtai.
>>>I see that xenomai has a user mode which looks equivalent to rtai's lxrt.
>>>What about calling real-time functions implemented in a module
>>>(rtai_lxrt call, rt_fun_entry table and so on)?
>>>Thank you,
>>>Daniele Lugli
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Have a look at the way a simple skin does it, e.g. ksrc/skins/uvm.
>>[...]
> 
> 
> But before going this way, first consider what kind of functions you
> exported so far via rt_fun_entry. If it was a driver API, you should
> better have a look at RTDM now.
> 

Yep. To be precise, RTDM is a particular skin in Xenomai terminology, that aims at 
providing a consistent interface and behaviour for writing real-time device 
drivers for Xenomai, so that at some point in time, we will hopefully have 
something resembling a standardized device driver factory. RTDM support is 
particularly well integrated with Xeno's POSIX real-time interface in user-space 
for instance.

-- 

Philippe.