[rtai] Announce: rtai-24.1.9. (fwd)

Hello all

I am forwarding with this message an official announcement by Paolo
Mantegazza of RTAI-24.1.9, which, among other features, now includes
support for ARM (SA11x0, CLPS711x) processors.

Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
DSA Daten- und Systemtechnik GmbH
Pascalstr. 28
D-52076 Aachen
Germany

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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 17:07:06 +0200
From: Paolo Mantegazza <mantegazza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: rtai@xxxxxxxx
Subject: [rtai] Announce: rtai-24.1.9.

Hi,

at "http://www.aero.polimi.it/~rtai/"; you'll find rtai-24.1.9, likely a
major release again. What's new:

- Port to ARM (Guennadi Liakhovetski <gl@xxxxxxxxx>, Thomas Gleixner
<gleixner@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Alex Zuepke <azu@xxxxxxxx>)

- soft FP emulation, already working with ARM, not ported yet to other
architectures (Thomas Gleixner <gleixner@xxxxxxxxxxx>)

- Port to Coldfire-m68knomm, not really brand new but now merged in the
RTAI CVS and distribution (Bernhard Kuhn <bkuhn@xxxxxxxxx>)

- PPC CVS and distribution should be aligned with Denk's distribution
(Wolfgang Denk <wd@xxxxxxx>, Wolfgang Grandegger
<Wolfgang.Grandegger@xxxxxxxxxx>)

- support of NI-E-DAQ in RTW (Lorenzo Dozio <dozio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>)

- fifos kernel APIs usable from within hard LXRT, useful to avoid an
agent for simple communications with Linux processes (Thomas Leibner
<leibner@xxxxxxxxxxx>)

- alpha porting of rtnet to rtai-24.1.xx/linux-2.4.xx (David Schleef
<ds@xxxxxxxxxxx>)

- improved C++ support (Erwin Rol <erwin@xxxxxxxxxx>)

- improved making with many parametrizations, e.g. generic apic mapping,
non tsc machine understood automatically, experimental code and
applications highlighted (David Schleef <ds@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Robert
Schwebel <robert@xxxxxxxxxxx>).
N.B. Generic apic mapping contributed by Jan Kiszka <Jan.Kiszka@xxxxxx>.

- many examples are now parametrized, latency calibration results can be
recorded and displayed (Robert Schwebel <robert@xxxxxxxxxxx>)

- native long intertask messages in RTAI schedulers and net distributed
applications

- eavesdropping of receiving fifos content, i.e. previewing while
leaving everything unchanged

- bits synchronization, i.e. semaphores on event masks

- possibility of killing hard real time user space processes

- some so called "minor" bug fixes

- kernel support up to Linux 2.4.18.

Once more you can see a many hands work, both from individuals and
companies, and a lot of work done in a relatively short time. There has
been also a significant development behind the curtains for improving
RTAI making and layout. So even if only people that contributed items
specifically mentioned in the above list are evidenced you should thank
all of the RTAI developers for this release.

Ciao, Paolo.




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