Re: [realtime] Re: [rtl] RTAI experiences, or: The Cathedral and the Baazar, part #2

[Jochen Kuepper <jochen@uni-duesseldorf.de>]

On Mon, 20 Dez 1999 Stuart Hughes wrote:
>Jochen Kuepper wrote:

>Your idea was a good one, my only extra suggestion is that the includes
>be via a link at some point (in the same way that /usr/include/linux and
>/usr/include/asm are).

Yep - and I agree that is a good idea either :-)

>> Well, than people will step in and ask why the hell they don't get the ns
>> resolution they specify :-(
>
>The point I was making is that it is far easier to think in terms of
>nanoseconds than clock ticks, I often find myself confused when setting
>up the timer related stuff in RTL/RTAI.  Of course people have to
>realise that the resolution of the (8254) timer is 1/1193180 so you
>don't get exactly what you ask for.  Hopefully when other ports appear
>on platforms with better timers the discrepancy between nanoseconds
>asked and actual will be far less.

Yep, I understand your point. And I actually want it in ns !
I just assume the questions that will be there, so we have to make it
more then clear that you get what there is, not what you asked for !
( WYSIWIC - What You See Is What I Can (provide) :-)

Greets,
-- Jochen
        Heinrich-Heine-Universit”t, Institut f¸r Physikalische Chemie I
        Universit”tsstr. 1, Geb. 26.43.02.29, 40225 D¸sseldorf, Germany
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