“FSMLabs released the V3.0 version of RTLinux hard realtime
linux in developer beta today. RTLinux features a POSIX 1003.13
API, hard realtime functionality and the ability to take full
advantage of the Linux kernel which runs under RTLinux as a non
realtime thread. V3 runs on Intel IA32 (x86) compatible
processors, Alpha processors, and on a variety of PowerPC systems.
SMP is supported on x86. New features of this release are:”
- – supports Alpha (uniprocessor), PowerPC (uniprocessor) and x86
(SMP and uniprocessor) - – based on Linux-2.4.0test1
- – performance improvements
- – mutex priority ceiling support
- – spinlock mutexes
- – updated mbuff driver
- – usleep
- – signal interface for real-time interrupts
- – x86 SMP interrupt focus.:
- – conditional variables
- – mixing v1 and v2 APIs is now possible