Re: RTAI in CVS version

[Charly Brauer <cbrauer-at-voyager.net>]

Will,

Why is RTAI being used?  Is it simplier than rtlinux?

charly

At 02:24 PM 6/25/01 -0400, you wrote:
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>I have just checked into CVS a version that should support RTAI
>(Real-time Application Interface) as an alternative to RTLinux.
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>I built with kernel 2.4.3, rtai 24.1.4, gcc 2.95.2 and libc 2.1.3.
>Other versions may very well work, but I haven't tried any.
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>to build
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>cd rcslib/src
>make PLAT=linux_rtai
>make PLAT=rtai
>cd ../..
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>cd emc/src
>make PLAT=linux_rtai
>make PLAT=rtai
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>linux_rtai is for non-realtime stuff that needs to connect with rtai 
>code. just "rtai" is for the realtime code for the rtai environment.
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>I also increased the stack size which seemed to solve the problem that 
>caused frequent reboots under RTAI and I suspect was causing occasional 
>reboots under RTLinux.
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>-- Will
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