- From: Herman Bruyninckx <Herman.Bruyninckx_at_mech.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:27:15 +0200 (CEST)
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Tabish Mustufa wrote:
> The folks over at the Linux Driver Project (led by Greg K-H) are
> interested in pulling the comedi project into the mainline Linux
> kernel. Is there general interest among the comedi developers in
> doing this?
>
> From what I can tell, the main sticking points would be:
>
> 1. Support for a wide range of kernel versions. I don't imagine that
> this is a big deal for 2.6.x, but are there a lot of people still
> using comedi with 2.4.x?
>
> 2. Tight integration with RTAI (does RTLinux still work?). I know
> that this has been an important feature in my work with comedi...
>
> It sounds like there is some enthusiasm on the part of the LDP folks
> for this. I don't know that I'd have enough time to help out very
> much, but seeing as I was on both mailing lists, I thought I'd get the
> conversation started.
>
> What do you guys think?
>
Great!
But don't forget to synchronize with two other "dialects" (Xenomai and
Linux-RT_Preempt) and the RTDM (Real-Time Driver Model)
<http://www.xenomai.org/index.php/Xenomai:Roadmap>
Herman
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Received on 2007-10-19Z17:27:15