Re: BDI TNG

[Dan Falck <danfalck-at-mac.com>]

Paul,

If you had to leave steppermod behind, would freqmod still be there? If 
rtai is less bug prone, I would favor that.  The licensing of rtai also 
seems to be nicer than rtl.
On the computer speed, could you include a windows manager like icewm 
that doesn't eat up as many recources as the stock kde wm  (I was using 
icewm for a while and it seemed a bit faster).    How about the gui-less 
'curses' interface.  Would that help with speed on an older machine?

Thanks,
Dan


On Sunday, January 27, 2002, at 06:15 AM, Paul wrote:

>
>
> Hi Folks
>
> After banging my head against a problem Ray pointed out to me a while 
> back, I
> have come to the conclusion that a brand new BDI build is required. 
> This will
> be RedHat 7.2 based, with a whole bunch of new packages, but I have a
> quandary - Should I use the latest 2.4.17 kernel with rtai or an old, 
> buggy
> 2.4.4 with rtlinux-3.1 (or even 2.4.1 & rtl-3.0) ??
> Using rtai means loosing steppermod, and will require a minimum 
> computer spec
> of ~233Mhz. Running a 2.4.x-rtl kernel will mean forgoing the 
> advantages of a
> journaling filesystem, but will run on lower spec computers.
>
> Adapting the RH install shell is going to be a major nightmare so that 
> both
> options could be accommodated, and I'd rather not go that route - The
> alternatives are to build an rtl-3.x kernel and EMC (either as an rpm or
> tarball) and leave the user to manually install them. or drop rtlinux
> altogether. The last option being my personal preference.
>
> Comments please.
>
> Regards, Paul.
>