[Rtai] Announce: rtai-3.7-test1

[Paolo Mantegazza]

acemi list wrote:
> Hi Paolo,
> 
> I prefer to use RTAI with Debian Lenny (which is the latest stable
> release of Debian) and with its default kernel which is 2.6.26. I
> would be happy if you put it in 3.7
> 

OK, I'll do ASAP.
In any case recall that you can simply download the patch related to 
2.6.26 from GNA and use it with 3.7-test1 immediately.
Take also  into account that in any case there is no need to stick to 
the kernel of your actual distribution.
You should be free to do what you like in that regard. Just by way of 
example I routinely run 2.6.25, and 2.6.28.2 as well, on a machine using 
SUSE-9.0 who had a 2.4.21 kernel when it was installed on my (very) old 
PIII 1 GHz, 512 MB.
The result is not different from what I see on another machine of mine 
using ubuntu-8.1, which should be close to your Lenny.

Paolo


> thanks
> acemi
> 
> 
> 
> On 2/16/09, Paolo Mantegazza <mantegazza at aero.polimi.it> wrote:
>> acemi list wrote:
>>> Hi Pierangelo,
>>>
>>> Will there be a hal patch for 2.6.26 kernel in RTAI 3.7?
>>>
>> base/arch/x86/patches/. I've checked and noticed that I've put those for
>> 2.6.27-28 but not for 2.6.26. To avoid a larger tarball my assumption
>> has been that there was the need for the latest only. If you want it is
>> in magma CVS and I can put it in 3.7 and vulcano as well.
>>
>> Paolo.
>>
>>> acemi
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2/16/09, Pierangelo Masarati <masarati at aero.polimi.it> wrote:
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> the tarball of RTAI 3.7 test1 is available at
>>>> 	<https://www.rtai.org/RTAI/rtai-3.7-test1.tar.bz2>
>>>>
>>>> As far as I recall, main improvements are:
>>>>
>>>> - support for m68knommu (NEW) (Valentin Pavlyuchenko)
>>>> - new upgrade of ARM support (Torsten Koschorrek)
>>>> - lots of RTAI-Lab upgrades (Roberto Bucher; note that RTAI now
>>>>    integrates to Scilab 5.1, not yet in this test version; see Roberto's
>>>>    web page <http://web.dti.supsi.ch/~bucher/scilab.html>)
>>>> - multi port serial driver with shared interrupts (Renato Castello)
>>>> - rt_poll on mbx and sems
>>>> - SMP locks as for Linux ticket way
>>>> - RTDM support upgrade
>>>> - Linux support up to 2.6.28.2
>>>> - netrpc 32/64 bits inter operation
>>>> - shortened locking and timer replay in scheduler
>>>> - upgraded TLSF mem allocator
>>>> - rtai-py (python support)
>>>>
>>>> Enjoy!  p.
>>>>
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