On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > Do you really need real time kernel? > Debian is a technical driven project, but reading the previous two quotes, > "real time" is used as marketing thing.
It's good to question the use of any feature, but a real-time kernel is certainly very useful in many industrial applications and Debian is popular in that field. (Don't put a marketing label on anything where you are not yourself sure of your expertise.) I do use a real-time kernel on a Debian based system for one of my customers (but I have to recompile the kernel anyway because I do other customizations) and I have good reasons to do so because I can't suffer serial overrun and I must ensure that the serial interrupt handler is run in the required time and that no other (kernel) task has higher priority. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Contribuez à Debian et gagnez un cahier de l'admin Debian Lenny : http://www.ouaza.com/wp/2009/03/02/contribuer-a-debian-gagner-un-livre/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
