Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Jun 2002 12:05:58 +0200 | From | Alessandro Rubini <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Adeos nanokernel for Linux kernel |
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> It still looks to me like a real time operating system > (Adeos) running real time and non-real time tasks with a general > purpose operating system as one of the non-real time tasks...
But the point is exactly that adeos is not a real-time operating system. It is not an operating system at all.
Besides, adeos is not a "circumvention device" to run RT-and-non-RT at the same time. It's a nano-kernel meant to run several independent OS's at once, as well as kernel debuggers and a lot of other stuff. Did you notice Karim is the author and maintainer of the linux trace toolkit?
> Could you summarize (for non-lawyers such as myself) how this > bypasses the claims in the patent?
I'll quote the patent for you:
A process for [...] providing a general purpose operating system as one of the non-real time tasks; preempting the general purpose operating system as needed for the real time tasks; and preventing the general purpose operating system from blocking preemption of the non-real time tasks.
Nothing of this is in adeos. And nothing of this will be in the adeosized RTAI.
/alessandro, living in a swpat-free country (with other problems, though :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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