From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4A60A5B5.3090604@domain.hid> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:24:21 +0200 From: Jan Kiszka MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] RT_PREEMPT patch and other things... List-Id: Xenomai life and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Andreas Glatz Cc: xenomai@xenomai.org Andreas Glatz wrote: > Hi, > > I have some questions about the future of Xenomai: > > 1) I read that in Xenomai 3 you will add support to switch between > the native Xenomai scheduler > and the Linux scheduler patched with the RT_PREEMPT patchset. > When are you planning to > start this development? > There are some early components available, see http://git.denx.de/?p=xenomai-solo.git and http://git.xenomai.org/?p=rtdm-native.git. > 2) Is it right to say that when Xenomai runs on top of the patched > Linux scheduler we will still > have the native API with all it's nice features like RT_QUEUE > and RT_PIPE? Yes, the plan is to allow easy code migration between both RT models, and that would include code written for the Native skin. > > 3) Have you ever heard about a Xenomai/IPIPE port to m68k? I had some chat with the guy who is working on RTAI for m68k, which included writing some I-pipe-like patch. Unfortunately there was not much drive visible to push that part upstream. But it's released now, so someone else could pick that task up. > > 4) What are the most important conferences/summits/... for Xenomai > developers? E.g. RTLWS [1]. At least /me plans to attend (though on a non-Xenomai topic). > > Greetings from the Linux Symposium in Montreal, > > Andreas (Ruggedcom Inc.) Jan [1] http://www.osadl.org/Dresden-2009.rtlws11-dresden-2009.0.html -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT SE 2 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux