Re: [Xenomai] Scicos/Xcos Code Generation

[Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>]

On 08/22/2012 08:18 PM, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:

> On 08/22/2012 06:28 PM, Markus Valtin wrote:
> 
>> Hello all,
>>
>> i have a question regarding automated code generation from Scilab Xcos/Scicos.
>>
>> Is this possible? And if yes, how is the necessary setup.
>>
>> Background:
>>
>> We currently use RTAI for hard realtime but we want to use recent Kernel 
>> versions, so Xenomai with his RTAI skin seamed promising.
>>
>> However I read that the RTAI emulation was removed from version 2.6.0 because 
>> of lack of feedback / lack of LXRT emulation.
>>
>> So, is there another way like the native Xenomai Support as suggested on
>> http://www.evidence.eu.com/scilabscicos-code-generator-xenomai.html
> 
> 
> Googling a bit shows that other projects are using scicos with Xenomai:
> http://www.scilab-linux.com/
> http://rtss.sourceforge.net
> 
> I do not know, however, if this is what you are looking for.
> 
> You may want to reintegrate an RTAI skin to Xenomai, but in that case,
> please find someone to maintain it.
> 
> It makes probably more sense to simply change the tools to generate
> xenomai native skin calls instead of RTAI calls.
> 
> Also if the tools are able to generate code for Linux, chances are that
> it is even possible to use the generated code to run with Xenomai posix
> skin.


And if the code runs in kernel-space, it should use the RTDM skin.

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                                                                Gilles.