BDI TNG

[Paul <paul.corner-at-tesco.net>]

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.