Re: Not necessarily an RTAI question!

Hi,

First off, it doesn't matter where you or me are from. It's always a better
idea to ask the mailing list. This is definitely an RTAI issue, so I'm
forwarding your email to the mailing list in the hopes that somebody would
have a better answer.

Configuring the Linux kernel for RTAI is always tricky. I encouraged
developers to gather their common knowledge [here](
https://github.com/ShabbyX/RTAI/wiki/Kernel-configuration), but there was
not much participation. That said, I'm not aware of any script that would
make the process automatic. As a matter of fact, configuring grub is the
smallest of your problems.

However, John Morris did something even better than the script. He built
debian packages for RTAI (
http://mail.rtai.org/pipermail/rtai/2014-July/026437.html) which means all
you need is an `apt-get` line and you are good to go (it takes care of grub
too). The email is more than 2 years old, and I don't currently know if
there is an updated version. Given that it was based on my repo on github,
and that I haven't got around to updating it, I have a feeling the debian
packages are also old. Still, they are a lot more up-to-date than your
current setup.

Hope this helps and best of luck,
Shahbaz

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Aref Taidi <aref.taidi@newera-computing.
com> wrote:

> Dear Shahbaz,
>
>
>
> My Name is Aref Taidi and I am on the RTAI mailing list and have been
> using RTAI since 2006!
>
>
>
> I have noticed you are quite active in the RTAI forum and apologise if my
> email seems a bit intrusive but I thought it would be OK to talk to another
> technical guy from Iran directly rather than posting it on the RTAI forum
> as my problem may not be considered as an RTAI issue as you may agree from
> reading below!
>
>
>
> As you can see I have been interested in RTAI for a few years but never
> upgraded to later than 3.7.1 which my sound strange to you but reason for
> this was the difficulty I have had building an RTAI machine that works the
> first time!
>
>
>
> Initially I used the fedora distribution but then gave up as after my
> first upgrade the display driver was not working so switched to openSUSE
> and it has been running for several years now! SUSE was the first one I
> used after fedora and because it worked on my Dell machine I got stuck with
> it.
>
>
>
> Reason for this email is to check if you know of a script I can use to
> carry out the entire process of building and making a PC RTAI-enabled
> automatically? That is to configure and build the vanilla kernel and then
> RTAI, with grub configuration automatically edited.
>
>
>
> I tried this recently in a VM for a few different distributions for the
> latest RTAI and I believe grub2 is being used these days but grub2 config
> file was not updated automatically by the RTAI build process. Is this
> something you have seen?
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
>
> Aref
>

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