First Edition
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April 2004
Abstract
Generally speaking, the Xenomai technology first aims at helping application designers relying on traditional RTOS to move as smoothly as possible to a GNU/Linux-based execution environment, without having to rewrite their application entirely.
This paper discusses the motivations for proposing this framework, the general observations concerning the traditional RTOS directing this technology, and some in-depth details about its implementation.
The Xenomai project has been launched in August 2001. It has merged in 2003 with the RTAI project to produce an industrial-grade real-time Free Software platform for GNU/Linux. Xenomai's emulation technology will notably aim at providing a comfortable migration path from proprietary RTOS to RTAI.
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