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18 Real-time Support with Xenomai
Since Release ‘release_20061029_*’ real-time support for the
Xenomai real-time environment (www.xenomai.org) was merged
from a previous rt-branch into the main branch. Most of the work
was done by Laurent Bessard and Edouard Tisserant.
The Xenomai project has been launched in August 2001. It has
merged in 2003 with the RTAI project [www.gna.org/projects/rtai] to
produce an industrial-grade real-time Free Software platform for
GNU/Linux called RTAI/fusion, on top of Xenomai’s abstract RTOS
core.
18.1
Installation
First of all, in order to install PCAN-rt-driver, a Xenomai real-time
environment must be installed on your workstation. Download the
Xenomai source code from the Xenomai website and install it by
following the installation manual provided. The Linux kernel of your
workstation must be patched for using Adeos (patches for a lot of
architectures are included in the source code).
Before using Xenomai, the list of dynamic libraries of your
workstation must be updated. If not, the driver compilation will
abort. For that, you can use ‘ldconfig’, ensuring that the path to
Xenomai libraries have been added to /etc/ld.so.conf file.
18.2
Compilation Environment
To compile the PCAN real-time driver, you must provide in the
make command the option RT=XENOMAI. By default, the PCAN
driver will be compiled for non-real-time environment.
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