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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] Xenomai on x86 Asus P5LD2 mb Intel 945P chipset
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To: Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@domain.hid>
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On 08/02/2011 07:01 PM, Daniele Nicolodi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I know this is an odd question, but I would like to save some testing
> time if possible, I'm in a too tight schedule.
>
> I need to migrate one of my data acquisition system to more recent
> hardware to support a PCI-Express data acquisition board. The hardware I
> may use is an x86 box built on an Asus P5LD2 motherboard: Intel 945P
> chipset for Intel LGA775 Pentium 4 CPU.
>
> Can anyone give me an hint on what kind of latency performances I may be
> able to obtain from such hardware? The only reference I have been able
> to find in the archives is this
>
> https://mail.gna.org/public/xenomai-help/2007-02/msg00308.html
>
> where latency problems, probably related to SMI, are reported, but with
> an old version of Xenomai. Does someone have another data point that I
> may interpolate from?

The issues on that hardware at that time have been solved. We still
have a number of such machines. They run fine. I use Xenomai 2.5.? with
the appropriate kernel for it.

Good luck,
Theo