On Monday 17 September 2001 09:47 pm, John (EBo) David wrote:
>
> Oh frazelsnarf! That explains why I have not seen RTLinux embeded in the
> standard kernal.  I never could understand why.  You know, someone
> should write a kernal patch that does handels the real time determinism
> embeded in the kernel and be done with it...  THis pisses me off enough
> that I'm just about willing to help (not that I do not already have
> enough to do)...
>

There have been a few different approaches to realt-time. I guess the most 
promising at the moment is the patch to allow pre-emption of the kernel any 
time other than when a multiprocessor spinlock is active. 

http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5152980814.html

-Pete-