Re: RTAI 5 test2 et al.
John Doe <[email protected]>
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Paolo, Which kernel are you using in 14.04 right now? I have modified a 3.14 patch to work properly with 3.13.0-86 which is the distro kernel rev. But am not sure if it is the best choice. I notice RTAI 5 Test2 has a 4.1 kernel patch included. Might a 4.4 kernel patch be in the near future? Regards, todd On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 6:05 AM, Paolo Mantegazza < [email protected]> wrote: > On 05/14/2016 11:32 AM, John Doe wrote: > > Greetings! > > It has been many years (at least 10). I once used the NMT RTL3.2-pre3 > branch to host some 40+ full flight simulators here in the US. > > In fact several of these devices are still in use and have performed > admirably. We were using a pure kernel resident executive with various > helper modules functioning in user space; connected via RT-fifos and shared > memory. We maintained that patch through 2.4.37 but given the age of that > kernel series we eventually dropped development. > > However recently there is renewed interest in performing a few more large > Level C/D full flight sim re-hosts using this solution.. I would be > interested in trying to begin using our original baseline on top of an > Ubuntu 14.04LTS install. > > > Ubuntu 14.04LTS is what I'm using on two machines I use to develop RTAI. > > Does RTAI 5 still maintain compatibility with the original API? It would > be most desirable for us to be able to begin where we left off, using the > executive and tools already developed from that work those years ago. > > > That has been an aim of ours. The extent to which such an objective has > been met should be substantial, in my experience at least. Author's > intention is that any compatibility glitches should be minor and trivial to > solve. > > Paolo > > Kind Regards, > Todd Gearheart > FlightSafety Intl Simulation > > > > _______________________________________________ > Rtai mailing [email protected]://mail.rtai.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rtai > > > _______________________________________________ Rtai mailing list [email protected] https://mail.rtai.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rtai