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Date:      Sat, 6 Jun 1998 05:15:19 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>
To:        julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, calebm@uspaceware.com
Subject:   Re: [Fwd: FW: Adapting FreeBSD to be a RTOS]
Message-ID:  <199806060915.FAA09885@hda.hda.com>
In-Reply-To: <35782846.ABD322C@whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Jun 5, 98 10:17:58 am"

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> Caleb R. Miller wrote:
> > 
> > What I was looking for was a version of FreeBSD that had 
> > preemptive multitasking such that processes can run at 
> > different rates and get preempted if they don't complete 
> > within the assigned time.  I did find a version of Linux 
> > that has a real-time kernel and that runs Linux as a process.  
> > I was wondering if anyone had done a similar thing with 
> > FreeBSD or had modified the FreeBSD kernel to do 
> > preemptive multitasking.  

There is nothing yet except "rtprio" / POSIX fixed priority scheduler.
The processes will preempt, but the kernel is not reentrant.  I don't
know if this is what you want.

I'm sketching out something for SMP or a time multiplexed kernel.

Peter

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Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com)   Realtime development, Machine control,
HD Associates, Inc.               Safety critical systems, Agency approval

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