From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <441AE2D7.2070605@domain.hid> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 17:24:55 +0100 From: Philippe Gerum MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] Xenomai & RTAI question References: <5eb4b0650603170807x3a5d3d0oecd9e2ce4ba6a29c@domain.hid> In-Reply-To: <5eb4b0650603170807x3a5d3d0oecd9e2ce4ba6a29c@domain.hid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: Help regarding installation and common use of Xenomai List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: KC Cc: xenomai@xenomai.org KC wrote: > Hi, > > Just some simple questions, > > - do I need RTAI to run Xenomai ? No. > - Can I have RTAI and Xenomai installed together ? If by "installed" you mean running side-by-side safely, then the answer is no. RTAI would need to be fixed not to bypass the Adeos virtualization layer. > - Is Xenomai a real real-time OS or just a emulator ? > A real-time framework, including a real-time core, to build the real-time OS of your dreams, or use a pre-canned one that's already available with it. Aside of this, I don't understand how one could properly emulate a RTOS without any real-time capabilities under the hood. Quite frankly, syntactical compatibility using API wrappers without actual behavioural compatibility with the source RTOS is just silly marketing mumbo-jumbo in action. > Thanks > KC > > _______________________________________________ > Xenomai-help mailing list > Xenomai-help@domain.hid > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/xenomai-help > -- Philippe.