Hello rt. I wish to write a paper that describes what it means to port from vxworks to linux rt in all apects but from your experience. The bellow is a list of questions. why did you port ? lack of hardware support ? Is your system soft real time or hard time system ? Can you estimate how many lines of code were ported ? Was there an effort to teach the vxwork engineers linux ? did it succeed / partialy succeed ? If new engineers were recruited, was it difficult to find linux rt programmers ? how long did it take to recruit ? Was the same team structure preserved or a new hirarchy created ? how long did it take to the first linux product ? Did you release new vxworks versions while migrating ? after the migration is done ? if so , do you have the same engineers supporting the old code ? What are the information resources you used for that ? Did you consult with professionals ? how did you reach a decision what sort of rt flavor to use ? Were new positions/skills required ? Did you recruit platform engineers ? Kernel engineers ? Did you use porting libraries or a nother solution ? did you change the system design ? Did you use other programming languages other than c and c++ to migrate ? once the porting was complete can you estimate, does it take the same effort to release a product ? What was the clients response when they were told you changed Os ? Did they know or care ? Is the linux product required to do more than the vx works product? Were all engineers using the same operating system or did some programmers use linux while others running windows ? Did it matter ? Were there any logistics changes due to the porting ? Did the IT department took part , like switching exchange server to something else ? vpn ? Did you use the same source control system ? bug tracking system ? Did you keep your code closed or is it open/partialy open ? thank you raz -- 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
