Re: [rtl] preparing for 2.3

[Zdenek Kabelac <kabi@fi.muni.cz>]

Tomasz Motylewski wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Ian Kluft wrote:
> 
> > Just in case this isn't already planned... I'd like to bring up the idea
> > with the RT Linux project coordinators to submit the RTL kernel patches
> > into the Linux kernel core after the experimental 2.3 branch is created.
> 
> I think, this is very essential thing to do. It is good not only for the
> RT-Linux, but also for the rest of the Linux kernel. All those talks about
> interrupt latency on linux-kernel... I would dream about stardard serial
> driver using RT interrupts, being able to schedule events with 1e-5 s
> reliability in other drivers.
> 
> But take care. If Linus likes it too much, he will redesign the whole kernel
> again. :-)

Thats exactly what he should already do.

Nonpreemtive kernel is not a good choice. 

The horrible thing about busy-loop for waits less that 1ms in the normal
kernel
on 450MHz processors....
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