Re: ARM8 / BCM2837 & Raspbian

Real Time Raspberry PI would be amazing!
Even just one fixed rate real time interrupt routine and some shared 
memory with user space!
Santa, where are you?


On 5/4/2017 12:34 AM, Torsten Koschorrek wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 03.05.2017 03:31, Alec Ari wrote:
>> Hello, Mr. Doe! :D
>>
>> For any recent RTAI ARM support, and you'll need to be very 
>> experienced with C programming and kernel development in order to 
>> accomplish such a large task, ...
>>
> ...
> 
> Thanks Alec for this detailed explanation. In fact this is more or less 
> the same introduction I would have given. Some time back I tried to 
> write some documentation [1] to explain what needs to be done.
> 
> [1] 
> http://cvs.gna.org/cvsweb/magma/base/arch/arm/patches/PORTING_GUIDE?cvsroot=rtai 
> 
> 
>  > It's a lot of work (SERIOUSLY) and realistically would require a team 
> of experienced software engineers,
> 
> True! I guess the most time-consuming part is to learn how things have 
> to be done which can not be covered easily in any documentation. There's 
> a lot of experience and testing involved. And, unfortunately, in 
> addition you'd have to port the currently existing code to a recent 
> kernel and rtai base (also described in the doc and on my todo list for 
> a long time now).
> 
>> ... but just so I'm not playing the expert who never shares the secrets,
>>
> ??? What do you mean with "expert who never shares the secrets" !?!
> 
> Maybe I'm not the fastest and my time for this project is very limited. 
> But I'm always willing and trying to answer arm-related questions in 
> this ml. Also I'd try to support as best as I can when a port is about 
> to start. (sorry, more or less offtopic discussion!)
> 
> 
> 
> Anyway, "John" in case of questions, feel free to ask ;-)
> 
>>
>> Alec
> 
> Regards,
> Torsten
> 
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