I agree with Stephen. The real time kernel is not an inherent part of what Ubuntu does.
Basically it is a microkernel that drives the physical devices and runs Ubuntu, and its applications including the rest of EMC as a task. If an interrupt happens, the microkernel takes over, when it is done it lets 'lower priority functions' like running Ubuntu do what it wants. This is the only way to run what is known as 'hard real time' in this environment. It may not be pretty, but it works. ... Other options are to offload all the real time functions to an appliance like Smooth Stepper by Warp 9 ( http://www.warp9td.com/ ) but it isn't (yet) EMC friendly. (Smooth Stepper requires Mach3 and Windows to work sofar) For the 'old timers' that there are the DOS g-code interpreters. They were effectively stand alone but used DOS as a program loader. I hope this helps someone... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
