Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 01 Jun 2005 15:58:45 +0100 | From | Paulo Marques <> | Subject | Re: RT patch acceptance |
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Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 04:32:02PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > >>years of doing that in linux. I'm not a lawyer but you may want to >>check before investing too much on this for the next 15 years. The > > Here's a link that may be of interest: > > http://www.fsmlabs.com/openpatentlicense.html > http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=12&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ptxt&s1=5,995,745&OS=5,995,745&RS=5,995,745
Did you read this?
All the claims in the "Claims" section of the patent text start with:
> providing a real time operating system for running real time tasks and components and non-real time tasks; > > providing a general purpose operating system as one of the non-real time tasks;
This seems like the RTAI kind of nano-kernel approach and has nothing to do with the way the RT-PREEMPT patch works, AFAICS.
-- Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com
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