From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,13c9d743a1325f0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-11 11:27:24 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!not-for-mail From: "Per Dalgas Jakobsen" Subject: Re: RTEMS, MaRTE or ... Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 20:27:28 +0100 User-Agent: Pan/0.13.3 (That cat's something I can't explain) Message-ID: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3E482560.40602@crs4.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: TDC Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.89.241.47 X-Trace: 1044991643 dread12.news.tele.dk 11045 193.89.241.47 X-Complaints-To: abuse@post.tele.dk Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:34003 Date: 2003-02-11T20:27:28+01:00 List-Id: Hi Jacob :-), > The "Linux in a Box" people seem to be able to cut the Linux kernel down > to it's essentials. It this can work even with the real-time patches I'm sure that Linux could do a nice job in this case too, but it might be a bit overkill to use a fullblown(?) OS to simply launch your application and handle some basic scheduling. In many embedded cases I end up figuring out how to tweak the OS-drivers to perform reliably (timing), and in some cases I end up rewriting them to handle the events the way I need it anyway (e.g. timestamping of every character from a serial port). In some applications I also prefere simplicity over flexibility - If there is no OS-driver, it can't fail. Per > PS: Var det ikke en id� med en Ada-aften i K�benhavn i l�bet af ugen > 24-28/2? PS: Jo da - Jeg er klar ;-) (Men befinder du dig ikke p� langt-syd-for-K�ge-�en???)