From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4F1493B5.1000501@domain.hid> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:16:37 +0100 From: Gilles Chanteperdrix MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] Processor type for installation List-Id: Help regarding installation and common use of Xenomai List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Santiago Focke Cc: xenomai@xenomai.org On 01/16/2012 09:03 PM, Santiago Focke wrote: > Dear all > > I've been trying to install Xenomai but I haven't been able to do it > right. After being able of building and installin the kernel and Xenomai, > I tried to run the example program trivial-periodic, I got the following > error We do not know which kernel version, which xenomai version, which adeos I-pipe version. > > /usr/src/xenomai-2.6/examples/native$ ./trivial-periodic > Xenomai: incompatible feature set > (userland requires "tsc fastsynch", kernel provides "sep fastsynch smp", > missing="tsc"). > > I read that the reason for this is that I didn't configure correctly the > processor family (with xconfig). Is that the reason? Also, I've been trying > to know which option should I choose (I chose CONFIG_M586 at the > beggining), but I don't know were to get that information. The CPU info > goes as follows: > > /proc/cpuinfo > > processor : 0 > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > cpu family : 6 > model : 37 > model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU M 620 @ 2.67GHz So, you have a core i7, anything newer than "pentium pro" (an older than ten years old architecture) should do, but better select the processor you actually have or the nearest substitute: so, assuming you are compiling a 2.6.38 kernel, "core 2/newer xeon" should do. Also note that a core i7 is able to run in 64 bits mode, so running it in 32 bits mode is a bit a pity. -- Gilles.