EMC2 with FreeBSD

[johan_tr2000]

Is it possible?

Rgds,

TR2000

[unterhaus]

EMC needs either RTLinux or RTAI to function. I don't think either of these packages support FreeBSD. They have to modify the kernel in order to work.

[johan_tr2000]

How about using patch for realtime-BSD such as RTcoreBSD? Possible?

Rgds,
TR2000

[acondit]

There are api's for RTLinux and RTAI patched linux. You might have to do a lot more work to get RTcoreBSD to work than to just patch the source to use RTAI. You might have to write the API interface to EMC for the RTcoreBSD.

Google RTAI and BSD to see if someone else has already done a patch for the BSD kernel to use RTAI. I know that there are a lot of different versions of linux that have been patched to use RTAI.

Alan

[unterhaus]

Originally Posted by johan_tr2000 How about using patch for realtime-BSD such as RTcoreBSD? Possible? TR2000

EMC has an abstraction layer between the actual emc code and the rt code. This allows them to call their own code which is then translated to the proper rt calls. So if the RTcoreBSD maps one to one onto the other systems, it would be quite easy.