--- In Eddie Dawydiuk <> wrote:
>
> > Is there any sort of formal statement from TS on when the 2.6 kernel
> > series will be supported?
> "We are a very old-school set of engineers that have been
> well served with the saying "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" and
> nothing seems obviously broken with 2.4.
> We'd really rather invest energy in making Linux more transparent in
> customer applications.
Being old-school, I'm very much for both of these statements. From a
"customer"
perspective, about the only thing that's forced me to learn more than I ever
wanted about
the inner-workings of the Linux kernel is the absence of peripheral support at
the kernel
level. There are no drivers provided for the DIOs and the ADCs.
The example code works well enough (thanks!), and I don't have very strict
timing
requirements, but I would like to get get the status of all the peripherals at
some
reasonable frequency (say 100Hz?). Seems like not too much to ask considering
we can
execute 2 million instructions at 100 Hz. I'm using the on-board ADC, all of
the DIOs,
XDIO edge counter, as well as other XDIOs (TS-7260). Its not exactly possible
to do all
this with stock software and its minimum of a 10ms sleep. Driving the ADC from
userland
and debouncing DIOs pretty much throws a wrench into the works. About 10 Hz is
the
best I can manage, which is actually passable for my application (but only
thanks to the
XDIO edge counter).
Frankly, I could care less about Eclipse and the rest of that gobbledygook.
Sleeping on a
FIFO, developing in BBEdit over FTP, and self-hosted compiling on a chrooted
USB
thumbdrive is just fine by me. "If it ain't broke - don't fix it".
-Ilya
>
> //Eddie
>
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