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From: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] Kernel or Module
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To: Franz Engel <franz_lambert_engel@domain.hid>
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Franz Engel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does it make any difference if I build the linux kernel with the
> posix skin inside or as a module. Currently I build all
> Realtime-Options in the kernel. So I load no modules and with lsmod
> there are no xeno* modules? Is it correct?

>>From a performance point of view, there may be a very little advantage
for in-kernel builds over module builds, on very low end machines. The
major difference is that you do not have to insmod anything before
launching your application. I do not see other differences, in fact. The
module build appears to me mostly as a legacy thing, because in the
past, Xenomai was built outside the kernel tree, and could only be build
as module.

-- 
					    Gilles.