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Re: Preemptive ?



Can any one please explain what "embeded systems" mean ?

Nimrod Mesika wrote:

> Iftach Hyams wrote:
> >
> > Is Linux preemptive ?
> > Does anyone know about a site about Linux and embeded systems ?
>
> Linux is just starting to shake the embedded systems market...
> You might want to look at:
>
> http://www.linuxdevices.com/
> http://www.prosa.it/embedded/etlinux/
> http://www.embedlinux.net/
> http://www.emlab.org/
>
> and of course, Cygnus (www.cygnus.com) has some interesting stuff too.
>
> -- Nimrod.
>
> p.s. What do you mean by preemptive? Linux has, of course, preemptive
> scheduling (as opposed to cooperative scheduling). What you may be
> looking for is a 'hard' real-time scheduler. 'Official' Linux kernel
> does not support hard real time but there is RT-linux (www.rtlinux.org).
> Cygnus' ecos (a gpl'ed realtime microkernel) may support a subset of the
> Linux API too (one day :-)
>
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