Rtai.Dk

Welcome

Instructions

• If you see something you don't like: change it (or delete it!)
• Looking for something but can't find it? - add a skeleton and wait for someone else to fill in the rest!

Contents

1. Installation
   1. Which version to choose
   2. [Obtaining RTAI]?
   3. Installation
      1. Distribution independent installation
      2. Installation on Debian
      3. Installation on Debian Kernel 2.6.10 and RTAI 3.2 on AMD K7
      4. Installation on Mandrake 9.1
      5. Installation on Mandrake 9.2
      6. Installation on Mandrake 9.2-RTAI 3.1
   4. Filesystems
   5. Hardware
      1. List of compatible hardware
      2. List of problem hardware
   6. Gotchas
   7. Build
   8. How does one know whether one has installed RTAI correctly
   9. Bootstrapping with magma in 7 steps
   10. [[What to do if it doesn't work]]
2. General
   1. Getting Started
   2. Kernel space or user space
   3. Schedulers
   4. ISR - Interrupt service routines
   5. IO?
   6. Comedi
   7. Mailboxes
   8. Shared Memory - shmem
   9. Semaphores
   10. FIFOs
   11. RTnet?
   12. Serial port communication
   13. Time
   14. Memory
   15. DMA and jitter
   16. Latency Killer
   17. Programming and debugging
   18. Watchdog
   19. Signals
   20. QT
3. LXRT (User space) - well, it is really called NEWLXRT right now, but that will change after release 24.1.12
   1. Start with LXRT
   2. LXRT examples
   3. LXRT FAQs
   4. [LXRT tips and tricks]?
4. RTAI (Kernel Space)
   1. RTAI FAQs
   2. The proper use of printf and friends
   3. Makefile for kernel 2.6
5. Known bugs
   1. Bugs in 24.11
6. Embedded Linux
   1. devfs
7. Skins (Xenomai)
   1. How to implement a new skin
   2. vxWorks
8. Misc
   1. RTAI on ARM
9. Bootable CDs
   1. All in RAM disk
   2. [A knoppix style bootable RTAI CD] - Use the BDI-Live images. This has a working 2.4.25-adeos kernel, complete with sources and compilers. Requires 256Meg of memory to boot, although BDI-Lite should cope with less as long as you don't want compilers & KDE. About [the base CD]
   3. [An RTAI 3.1 LiveCD with WebApp] - This LiveCD will submit the testresults of the testsuite to an Internet database. The database can be searched to find information about the real-time performance of various hardware.
   4. [RTAI-Knoppix 1.2]
   5. [rtai_knoppix.iso] (www-lar.deis.unibo.it). LiveCD from Gianluca Palli. With kernel 2.6.17.11, compiled for 586, rtai-3.4 with rtai-lab support, scilba 4.0 etc.
10. Articles and links to other documentation
    1. [The RTAI mailinglist archive] [search]
    2. RTAI examples (showroom): CVS or [download]
    3. [A Guide to Installing RTAI Linux]
    4. [RTAI Reference Manual]
    5. [RTAI 3.0 Documentation]
    6. [On the history of RTAI]
    7. [RTAI Fusion]
    8. [Real Time and Embedded Guide ("rtHOWTO")]
    9. [HTML Slideshow on RTAI] - about LXRT from slide 8
    10. [- Generic real-time infrastructure for signal acquisition, generation and processing]
    11. [About the different timers]
    12. [HOWTO Port your C++ GNU/Linux application to RTAI/LXRT]
    13. Linux Device Drivers ISBN 0-596-00008-1 (alternate, search) [read it online here]
    14. Building Embedded Linux Systems by Karim Yaghmour [1] http://www.embeddedtux.org/
    15. Here is a [comparison of RTLinux vs. RTAI] describing the differences between RTAI and [RTLinux].
    16. [A table showing RTLinux and RTAI API]
11. Related projects
    1. [Linux Trace Toolkit]
    2. [Kiwi. A trace viewer]
    3. [RTnet - Real-Time Networking for RTAI].
    4. [USB4RT - Real-Time USB stack for RTAI] [announce1], [announce2].
    5. [rtcan - Real-time CAN under RTAI/linux].
    6. [ACE and TAO]?
    7. [ADEOS]
12. Fusion page