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20.03.08 12:00

Philippe Gerum + Denx + OSADL = Xenomai/SOLO

Xenomai

Port existing VxWorks applications smoothly to native Linux


15.03.08 12:00

Open Source meets Industry: Application Park and International Congress at the Hannover Fair 2008

Hannover Fair 2008

Visit the OSADL-organized Application Park, see leading Linux developers in Hannover, and meet the industry standard of the 21st century.



"Latest stable" RT-Preempt realtime Linux kernel

OSADL recommends the RT-Preempt realtime Linux kernel 2.6.21.6-rt21 as latest stable version

Kernel
www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.21.6.tar.bz2

RT-Preempt Patch
www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/older/patch-2.6.21.6-rt21

Kernel Virtual Machine (kvm)
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/kvm/kvm-28.tar.gz
RT-Preempt Patches for realtime Linux kernel 2.6.21.6-rt21 and kvm-28
svm.c vmx.c

These references are also intended to form the basis of an OSADL maintained kernel to be used in the Safety Critical Linux project.

Instructions

Short installation instruction

A quick list of the commands needed to download, patch and build an RT-Preempt realtime Linux kernel is given here.

HOWTO

How to enable realtime capabilities of the mainline kernel including hints how to check the realtime capabilities of the newly compiled kernel is further explained here.