Table of contents

Cover

Agenda

Intro

Definition

Nutshell

Current Trends

Linux Inside

Why Linux?

Embedded Linux Space

Commercial

OSS

Role Your Own

Your own distro

Booting

Run Time

Faults

Real Time Myths

The Elvis Factor

Real Time Defined

Real Time Explained

Hard Vs. Soft Real Time

Real Time and Embedded Precived

RT & Embedded Reality

Linux & Real Time

Real Time, Real Problems

How Time Flys

In a Jiffie

Jiffie Time

RT Scheduling

Slide 30

RT Scheduling Tips & Tricks

Priority Inversions

Kernel Latencies

Preemtible Kernel

Vanilla Reponse

Preemptible Kernel Response

Linux RT Extentions

The End.

Author: Gilad Ben-Yossef

E-mail: gilad@benyossef.com

Homepage: http://benyossef.com/

Further information:
This lecture was given by me at the 2002 August Penguin event. Some of the slides are copyrighted by MonteVista software inc. and are used with premission. Special thanks goes to Mr. Gil Glazer from Agam System for providing them.