Re: RTAI status

RTAI is at the state of version 5.0-test. It has not been released as 
5.0 final because I've pending issues on RTDM support and I did not find 
yet the time to work on it.
In any case, RTDM apart, Vulcano CVS is in a good shape and working.

The point is that  I'm intensely using it now, and I've not found much 
time to care for a release. That's bad but, on the good side, I'm still 
seeing RTAI working nicely and effectively, hands on and on significant 
problems.

My coding is straight in C but in my dept there reappeared (lazy) people 
that like getting their controllers generated automatically. Thus I soon 
foresee some refurbishing of RTAI-Lab also.

All of what above, at least in relation of what we are doing, has also 
shown that the interface with COMEDI is still working properly.

There is some ARM support, with an own maintainer, in RTAI, but I'm not 
working on it. Nevertheless I've a plan to acquaint myself with 
Rapsberry. I did something already, e.g saw that I can develop my stuff 
much like as on a PC. Unfortunately the lack of a boot-loader makes 
kernel level (patching) development quite annoying. I've been said there 
might be the possibility of using a boot-loader but did not verify it 
yet. Development using a virtual environment is not my choice.

Overall it is all a matter of time, at the moment there are 3 people 
working on RTAI, 2 just (very) sparingly. After my retirement I hoped to 
have more time to dedicate to RTAI. (Un?)Fortunately my continued 
engagement with my dept research activities proved it was not that way.

In any case I find RTAI as lively as before, at least on my side and for 
not so trivial applications.

It would be helpful to find people willing to supporting some RTAI 
subsystems development, e.g. RTDM, RTAI-Lab and COMEDI updates.

Paolo

On 02/14/2017 01:00 AM, Brooke Wallace wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm curious what the status of RTAI. I see the website was last 
> updated about a year ago, but the latest release notices are dated 
> 2013. Thats ok, maybe its already complete and doesn't need a new 
> release. But I see also on the mail list that kernel patches are still 
> required. Was there ever an effort to have those changes up-streamed 
> into the kernel
>
> W'ere thinking about taking a look at RTAI for our RTOS in a project 
> and I want to make sure there is still an active community. Some of 
> the documentation also talks about x86... is there support for ARM?
>
> If your no longer using RTAI, what is the popular choice for 
> Linux/RTOS combination now?
>
> Please let me know. I was hooked on RTLinux back in the day and would 
> like to get back to some RT development again.
>
> -Brooke
>
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