[etherlab-users] EtherCAT master running on Linux with RT_PREEMP

Florian Pose fp at igh-essen.com
Tue Feb 26 13:51:10 CET 2008


Hi Martin,

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:16:11PM +0100, martin troxler wrote:
> Are there any plans to support linux with the rt-preempt patch, i.e.
> pure linux without an underlying nano-kernel like RTAI, XENOMAI or
> RTLINUX ?

do you mean the complete EtherLab suite or only the EtherCAT master? The
latter one is independent of any realtime kernel and will run fine with
the rt-preempt patch.

EtherLab/RTW supports only RTAI at the moment, but this will definitely
change in the future...

-- 
Best regards,
Florian Pose

http://etherlab.org



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