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Originally Posted by Aaron.Graeve
Was this test run with the roboRIO powering up or was it already on (i.e. hard reboot vs soft reboot)? Did the test you see require a full reboot after loading code? My message was more directed at the time to load and run code after the roboRIO is already running and was based on what I have heard. I wanted to be at Champs this year so I could talk to some of the alpha testing teams in person, but college work prevented me.
Even considering, a ~25 seconds from boot to code running is very nice and better than what we have now. I have hope the roboRIO firmware will reduce this time even further. (Keeping my fingers crossed for user code in user space)
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From research on the new roboRIO, as it runs a linux distro with real time extensions, in addition to the changes in the programming environments to be fully user level (such as now using Java SE) the robot code will be running as a userlevel application under the linux kernel, now allowing for fast software soft-loading which is as simple as restarting an application.