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16 years ago

Soft realtime with PREEMPT-RT for NIOS II

Dear all, We have made an effort to port PREEMPT-RT on NIOS II. It is possible to use PREEMPT-RT for NIOS II (with MMU) under Linux. PREEMPT-RT is a soft realtime extension for Linux. ...
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16 years ago

Thus while improving the hard realtime capability (max latency) of the Kernel, the "soft" realtime capability (average latency) will be worse.

This it would be perfect to have a switch in the Kernel/System "make" procedure to select either option.

-Michael