Re: Attempted summary of "RT patch acceptance" thread

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Saksena, Manas wrote:
> The needs that Linux and QNX (or, whatever your favorite RTOS is)
> fulfill are not that separate. 

That point of view may not be shared by others.

> Keep in mind that Linux has been making inroads into traditional
> RTOS markets for 4+ years. RTOSes have been used in many devices
> and systems -- many of which do not need the "ruby/diamond" hard
> variety of real-time -- preempt-rt would be hard-enough for a 
> very large number of devices/systems that currently use an RTOS
> (or non mainline Linux kernel). 

Please, Manas, go teach someone else about how Linux has been doing
in the real-time world for the 10 years.

> And, likewise SMP and large system scalability will often conflict
> with desktop performance. Or, interactive performance goals conflict
> with server throughput goals, and so on.... 

Not at this scale.

Karim
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