Re: RT patch acceptance
From: Nick Piggin
Date: Mon May 30 2005 - 08:40:35 EST
Esben Nielsen wrote:
I do like the idea of guest kernels - especially the ability to enforce a
strict seperation of RT and non-RT. But you can't use _any_ part of the
Linux kernel in your RT application - not even drivers. I know a lot of
If you can't use the drivers, then presumably they're no good
to be used as they are for realtime in Linux either, though :(
In which case, you may still be better off porting the driver
over and rewriting it to be hard-realtime than rewriting Linux
itself ;)
But I could be wrong. I don't pretend to have the answers (just
questions!).
Thanks,
Nick
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