RTAI Kernel Test result on Pentium4 1.8G Laptop - IBM thinkpad R32

[Paolo Mantegazza]

Howard Cai wrote:
>>===== Original Message From Paolo Mantegazza <mantegazza at aero.polimi.it> 
> 
> =====
> 
>>Panagiotis Issaris wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Op zo, 03-07-2005 te 22:47 -0700, schreef Howard Cai:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi, I just installed the RTAI-3.0r4 with Linux 2.4.25 on above platform.
>>>>the result comes from the testsuite of kernel seem very strange, very
>>>>different
>>>
>>>>from the result on my desktop. for example, the maximum latency
>>>
>>>>on laptop is so big, while on desktop is just a few thousands.
>>>>
>>>>Can anybody help to interpret the reason and what is the fix?
>>>>Anything wrong here.
>>>
>>>
>>>It might be an SMI problem. To verify this, you could run the LiveCD and
>>>select the menu-item to run the latency test with SMI disabled.
>>>
>>
>>In relation to this: in magma there is a module to support manipulating
>>SMO independently from RTAI. I've "just" to set up its automatic making
>>into RTAI but anybody can build it outside already. It is part of the
>>x86 calibration stuff (base/arch/i386/calibration).
>>
>>Paolo.
> 
> 
> I have downloaded the latest 3.2-test2 and will look into this. hope this is 
> what you meant.
> 

No, you have to browse the amgma CVS for the above directory and copy 
smi_module.c

Paolo