[ANNOUNCE] Real-Time Driver Model

[Jan Kiszka]

Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> here comes the first patch for RTAI/fusion (today's CVS) to add support 
> for the Real-Time Driver Model. The patch comes with a new skin for the 
> RTDM functionality, and it replaces the existent 16550A serial driver 
> with a RTDM-compliant version. You can download the patch from
> 
>     http://www.rts.uni-hannover.de/mitarbeiter/kiszka/rtai
> 
> On that site, you will also find an userspace example application for 
> the native skin which opens two cross-connected serial ports, transmits 
> some bytes, and takes some timestamps. Take it as a kind of 
> documentation for the new interfaces which is yet lacking.
> 

Just uploaded a snapshot of the ongoing documentation effort for RTDM:

     http://www.rts.uni-hannover.de/mitarbeiter/kiszka/rtai/api

That version is a bit ahead of patch-02, it's reflecting the version 
that will make it into fusion-CVS likely already this week.

Hope this gives yet a better impression of what RTDM is about.

Jan