On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 09:56 +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Calin Culianu wrote: > > > Now, there is no way to raise the priority of particular driver's ISRs is > > there? So that a specific ISR can preempt anything including a hard realtime > > process? > > It's the second time you say "hard" real-time, so, just wanted to warn - > it is not hard. It is still only soft real time, but a pretty good one, I > think. Hard / Soft is a property of the application's deadline requirements, not a property of the operating system. The consequences of missing a deadline determine determine whether an RT >application< is hard or soft RT. Therefore, it is inappropriate to qualify an operating system as hard or soft RT without deadline context. Sven - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html