RE: SA-RTLinux for ppc?

sumedh tirodkar wrote:

does there exist a Standalone RTLinux for powerpc?

I don't know, but there's a very good hard real-time extension called
Xenomai=20
for powerpc (and many other arch's). http://www.xenomai.org

Best Regards
--=20
Stephane

actually i m tryin to find a linux like port for powerpc.
lookin for a kernel which has very less functionalities.

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Fillod Stephane <stephane.fillod@thomson.net

wrote:

sumedh tirodkar wrote:

quoted

does there exist a Standalone RTLinux for powerpc?

I don't know, but there's a very good hard real-time extension called
Xenomai
for powerpc (and many other arch's). http://www.xenomai.org

Best Regards
--
Stephane

sumedh tirodkar wrote:

quoted

does there exist a Standalone RTLinux for powerpc?

I don't know, but there's a very good hard real-time extension called
Xenomai
for powerpc (and many other arch's). http://www.xenomai.org

RTLinux/GPL (www.rtlinux-gpl.org) currently does not support PPC though
we do have the first ports for PPC 440 and 405 of XtratuM in testing it
will be some time before RTLinux is fully available in a stable release.
So atleast for now xenomai is your best bet for a free-software real-time
extension. If you are interested in testing early releases let me know
though.

thx!
hofrat

Dear "sumedh tirodkar",

In message [off-list ref] you wrote:

actually i m tryin to find a linux like port for powerpc.
lookin for a kernel which has very less functionalities.

That's what Fillod recommended to you:

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Fillod Stephane <stephane.fillod@thomson.net

quoted

I don't know, but there's a very good hard real-time extension called
Xenomai
for powerpc (and many other arch's). http://www.xenomai.org

If you need support for hard real-time behaviour in Linux, then use
Xenomai.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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actually i m tryin to find a linux like port for powerpc.
lookin for a kernel which has very less functionalities.

Well then XM2 might be of interest for you - this is really very close to
what SaRTL was doing just based on the XtratuM hypervisor and thus
providing seperated address spaces for the real-time domains (that is they
run in user-mode) It boots stand-alone but can run Linux as a guest - the
development is still at an early stage though, if you are interested in
more details let me know - this is a bit off topic for here I guess. A
number of presentations on both XtratuM and XM2 are scheduled for the 10th
Real Time Linux Workshop in Mexico (Oct 29-Nov 1 2008) see:

 http://www.realtimelinuxfoundation.org/events/rtlws-2008/rtlws10/

thx!
hofrat

I would definitely like to try out the early releases. how can u help me
with that?

Regards,
Sumedh

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Nicholas Mc Guire [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

sumedh tirodkar wrote:

quoted

does there exist a Standalone RTLinux for powerpc?

I don't know, but there's a very good hard real-time extension called
Xenomai
for powerpc (and many other arch's). http://www.xenomai.org

RTLinux/GPL (www.rtlinux-gpl.org) currently does not support PPC though
we do have the first ports for PPC 440 and 405 of XtratuM in testing it
will be some time before RTLinux is fully available in a stable release.
So atleast for now xenomai is your best bet for a free-software real-time
extension. If you are interested in testing early releases let me know
though.

thx!
hofrat

I would definitely like to try out the early releases. how can u help me
with that?

We are cleaning it up a bit and packing it up as a fresh snapshot - the
first snapshots can be found at:

 ftp://dslab.lzu.edu.cn:/pub/xtratum/xtratum-ppc/snapshots

The patch in the patches directory is agaist 2.6.19.2 from ELDK (not
kernel.org) and was tested on 440EP/GR only.

Dont expect this to be clean though ;)

thx!
hofrat

Can you help me wid one more thing?
I m trying to find out what is the entry point for booting of
linux-powerpc..i.e. what is the file sequence that gets executed after
yaboot gives control to linux kernel?
there are no head.S nd setup.S files in arch/powerpc/boot/ directory...which
are present in arch/i386/boot

Regards,
Sumedh

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Nicholas Mc Guire [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

I would definitely like to try out the early releases. how can u help me
with that?

We are cleaning it up a bit and packing it up as a fresh snapshot - the
first snapshots can be found at:

 ftp://dslab.lzu.edu.cn:/pub/xtratum/xtratum-ppc/snapshots

The patch in the patches directory is agaist 2.6.19.2 from ELDK (not
kernel.org) and was tested on 440EP/GR only.

Dont expect this to be clean though ;)

thx!
hofrat