Thread: Quick Reboot - is it possible?
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Re: Quick Reboot - is it possible?
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Originally Posted by tech2077 View Post
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.
I went to one of the booths at the World Championships, and they had a bunch of the roboRIOs there. Brad Miller (the person in charge of WPILib) showed that with the new version, it would take ~5 seconds from pressing download to having the new code running. It's MUCH better than it previously was.
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