Re: [ECOS] Really dumb newbie question

[Tim Noell <tnoell at lexmark dot com>]

Jesper Wrote:
>Tim, have you installed the latest service pack? If not, do so, as it
>should (I imagine) update the DLL as well.

This solved it.  My administrator pointed me to Service Pak sp6a, which fixed 
the problem.

Thanks for your help.  I'm looking forward to learning more about eCos.

Unfortunately, this is a "skunkworks" project, and I am looking into it on my 
own time, so progress may be (relatively) slow.  

The local gurus decided about 1 yr ago to embed Linux, and now we are having 
lots of problems related to non-deterministic scheduling latencies, lack of 
priority inheritance, code size, ram requirements, etc.  I told 'em at the time 
these would be problems, but they charged ahead, anyway.  :-(  I was new to the 
company - but not embedded real-time systems (14 years) - and it was easy to 
ignore me.  ;-(   Rather than believe me that there is a difference between 
"real-fast" and "real-time", they are learning on their own, the hard way.

This year, they want to integrate some closed-loop control that is currently on 
a separate micro-controller.  So, I'll get to teach them about the problems with 
non-deterministic interrupt latencies, too.  Oh joy ...

I'm hoping the EL/IX Linux API might be a face-saving stepping stone for the 
powers that be, which will allow us to swap out Linux for eCos.  I have no 
permission or allocated time to look into this, but I'm pretty sure that's what 
needs to be done.  All in a days work.  

Thanks again for your help!
Tim

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