Hi, On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:37:54AM +0200, Richard Braun wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 03:58:40PM -0400, John Wason wrote:
> > I am a robotics engineer and find Hurd's design interesting. It is > > difficult to run robotic software on a full operating system because the > > kernel is way to complicated to specialize for a real-time robot system. > > Real-time linux does exist, but you still end up dealing with all the > > complexity of linux at the low-level control loop. Are there any plans > > for doing a real-time version of the Mach kernel? > First, don't confuse Mach and the Hurd, what you're asking has actually > little to do with the latter. I think John's point is that if Hurd used a RT-enabled version of Mach, he could run his RT processes at a low level in parallel to the normal Hurd stack, which would provide any necessary higher-level functionality. That would be pretty much the same as DROPS does with L4 and L4Linux. IMHO a rather interesting area for Hurd development -- though I guess we can't do much more than providing guidance in this case... -antrik-
