Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:16:23 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> To: yawstick <yawstick@charter.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: emc2 on freebsd Message-ID: <20090217171623.67e29505@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <499A4905.1080905@charter.net> References: <499A4905.1080905@charter.net>
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On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:20:05 -0500 yawstick <yawstick@charter.net> wrote: > curious if anyone could comment of the practicality of porting emc2 to > freebsd > emc2 is a cnc machine control package http://www.linuxcnc.org/ > the preferred operating system for this package is ubuntu with a real > time kernel > not sure what a real time kernel is but curious if there is something > similar on freebsd > Real time means guaranteed response times for handling e.g. interrupts. FreeBSD is not real time, although with a very fast CPU it may be adequate. Linux is also not real time out-of-the-box. Patches (RTAI for one) are needed to get real time behavior. --- Gary Jennejohn
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