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From: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu>
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To: Joshua Alguire <joshuaalguire@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: realtime functionality in freeBSD
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Joshua Alguire wrote:
> 
> We are in need of an open source realtime OS.  I have
> already installed and developed using
> Linux and its RTLinux extensions.  We would like to
> evaluate another OS, namely freeBSD.
> But I can not find any mention of realtime
> capabilities within the kernel.
> Can anyone answer this for me?  I've looked
> everywhere.  If there is no realtime support in
> freeBSD, are there any plans to incorporate it?
> We are in need of fairly hard realtime support (ie,
> more than a truly priority based scheduler).

I've been looking for this too, and from what I'm told there FreeBSD doesn't do
hard realtime, but there are a few kernel options that can get reasonable soft
realtime. Haven't looked into that too much since I need hard realtime.

Try small@freebsd.org, they might know more.

-Brandon


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