Using real-time Linux

For classic Linux users, there is the Linux Documentation Project, which provides a lot of information regarding the installation and configuration of most of the components of a Linux system. Unfortunately, such a repository does not exist for the real-time aspects of Linux.

An interesting paper on how to install and debug RTAI real-time linux was presented by Phil Wilshire at the Montreal Linux-Expo.

A critical element of information when developing a real-time is to know which function calls are allowed in which context. A very valuable web-page is therefore Gabor Kiss's Realtime Linux Compatibility Chart.