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2010-03-10 12:00
Parallel real-time on multi-core systems with mainline Linux
Several tasks simultaneously running at real-time priority no longer interfere to each other!
2010-02-22 12:00
"Latest Stable" Linux mainline real-time 2.6.31 is out!
Kernel 2.6.31.12-rt21 is our latest and greatest
2010-02-21 12:00
OSADL at the Embedded World 2010
Industry needs Open Source - Open Source meets Industry
2010-02-09 12:00
Spinlock annotations merged from the realtime tree to Linux mainline in 2.6.33
Raw spinlocks are the "real" spinlocks now
2010-02-08 12:00
Prof Eben Moglen on "GNU GPL Version 3: The Law Making Process"
International Conference on Commons, Users, Service Providers Internet (Self-)Regulation and Copyright
2009-11-23 12:00
Added a new HOWTO to the OSADL Website: Use BuildRoot to create a Linux image for QEMU
Guest Editor Bogdan Cristea tells us about rapid prototyping of an embedded system using virtualization |
Thomas Gleixner
- Thomas Gleixner
Linux kernel programmer, Linutronix, Germany
Thomas Gleixner has a long and successful history of system and application programming of industrial devices and machines. He is one of the managers of the Linutronix company which co-founded OSADL in 2005.
Since 2000, he is increasingly contributing to the Linux kernel. His master piece is the high-resolution timer project that got fully merged into the mainline Linux kernel version 2.6.24 in February 2008. Another very important project is to bring realtime capabilities to the mainline Linux kernel. This is done using the so-called Realtime-Preempt patches (aka PREEMPT_RT). Thomas is maintaining and developing them together with Ingo Molnár and Steven Rostedt. The first part of the Realtime-Preempt patches went mainline in summer 2006; their complete merge is expected until the end of 2009.
Last not least, Thomas initiated the architecture merger of Intel's 32- and 64-bit processors. He is now (together with Ingo Molnár and H. Peter Anvin) maintainer of the newly created common Intel architecture branch (x86).
"Open Source meets Industry"
An international congress on Open Source software in the machine and automation industry was held in Hannover, Germany, on April 22, 2008. More information is available here.