[Xenomai-main] Re: [rtai] ANNOUNCE: Xenomai 1.0

[Julian Suarez Gebauer]

El Mié 27 Mar 2002 11:44, Philippe Gerum escribió:
> At http://freesoftware.fsf.org/download/xenomai/releases/ you will
> find the latest release (1.0) of the Xenomai framework. Xenomai aims
> at providing a toolbox that helps implementing real-time interfaces
> and debugging real-time software on GNU/Linux. It also facilitates the
> migration of applications based on traditional RTOS to Linux/RTAI
> (http://www.rtai.org/) by providing API emulators running on top of
> RTAI's HAL.
>
> This is a major release including:
>
> - A reworked nanokernel now exhibiting a threaded interrupt model.
> Kernel mutexes have been introduced in order to reduce the interrupt
> masking time due to critical section enforcement, especially inside
> the real-time interfaces based on the nanokernel.
> - The VxWorks, pSOS+ and VRTXsa API emulators.
> - The initial implementation of an uITRON-compliant API.
> - A virtual machine that allows debugging the real-time applications
> in user-space using a RTOS-aware debugger.
> - And of course a number of bug fixes in all parts of the framework.
>
> A new disjunctive dual licensing scheme (GPL/Clarified Artistic
> License) now applies to core parts of the Xenomai framework such as
> the nanokernel and the real-time interfaces, so that embedded
> application developers using the Xenomai APIs are free to distribute
> their work under the license they see fit.  Details are available at
> http://freesoftware.fsf.org/download/xenomai/MANIFEST.
>
> The main README file describing Xenomai features is available online
> at http://freesoftware.fsf.org/download/xenomai/README. Please refer
> to the READMEs in the distribution for more in depth explanations.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Philippe.