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Re: RoboRio

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Originally Posted by crake View Post
Sure you didn't hear "REAL TIME LINUX"?
Nope, that is what the presenter repeated over and over again. If you look at the literature on the NI web site it says "embedded Linux with real-time extensions". Recent changes to the Linux kernel to make it scale better (in SMP environments) and to handle streaming I/O better (play video and audio) put Linux (straight from kernel.org) firmly in the soft real-time category. I'm not sure if the distro on the RoboRio will include an alternate scheduler or just have all the real-time stuff turned on and/or use embedded versions of user space libraries and utilities. It will be interesting to see what we get.
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