- RTLinux
RTLinux (or Real-Time Linux) is an extension of
Linux to areal-time operating system , which was originally developed by Victor Yodaiken at theNew Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology . RTLinux was made available as a community supported free version, called [http://www.rtlinuxfree.com/ RTLinux Free] , as well as a commercial version, called RTLinux Pro.Wind River Systems acquired FSMLabs technology in February 2007 and now makes the technology available as Wind River Real-Time Core for Wind River Linux.RTLinux supports hard real-time (deterministic) operation through interrupt control between the hardware and the operating system. Interrupts needed for deterministic processing are processed by the real-time core, while other interrupts are forwarded to the non-real time operating system. The operating system (Linux) runs as a low priority thread. First-In-First-Out pipes (
FIFO s) or shared memory can be used to share data between the operating system and the real-time core.See also
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Wind River Systems - owner of RTLinux Pro.
*RTAI - alternative real-time extension for Linux kernel
*Xenomai - another alternative real-time extension for Linux kernel
* iRMX for Windows - Real-time extension for Windows, somewhat similar architecturally.External links
*http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~sbrandt/courses/Winter00/290S/rtlinux.pdf
* [http://www.windriver.com/ Wind River - Supply RTLinuxPro / Wind River Real-Time Core - Commercial Versions of RTLinux]
* [http://www.fsmlabs.com/ Original supplier of RTLinuxPro]
* [http://www.rtlinuxfree.com/ RTLinuxFree - Open Source Version. Back online 8/18/2007. ]
* [http://www.rtlinux-gpl.org/ RTLinux-GPL - GPL Version. No longer being updated]
* [http://www.electronica.org.in Site where you can get materials/projects/discussion forums for and on RTLinux]
* [http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT3694406595.html Article that helps you to understand RT concept]
* [http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/RTLinux-HOWTO.html Site that gives a downloadable kernel patch along with the documentaion.]
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