Proceedings from the 13th Real Time Linux Workshop [LWN.net]

Proceedings from the 13th Real Time Linux Workshop

Posted Nov 1, 2011 11:25 UTC (Tue) by pebolle (guest, #35204) [Link]

0) The papers are only hosted by lwn.net, aren't they? Because it seems that they might need some English editing. Take, for example, the abstract of one of the first papers I wanted to have a look at (COMEDI and UIO drivers for PCI Multifunction Data Acquisition and Generic I/O Cards and Their QEMU Virtual Hardware Equivalents):

"The article describes implementation of UIO and Comedi drivers for Humusoft MF624 and MF614 data acquisition cards. Basic functions (D/A, A/D converters, digital inputs/outputs) of Humusoft MF624 card were implemented into the Qemu emulator as well which enable to experiment with drivers implementation without physical access to the cards and risk of data lost when drivers are developed and tested on same primary Linux kernel instance. The article can help newcomers in the area to gain knowledge required to implement support for other similar cards and hardware emulation of these cards. The matching real and virtual setup can be used in operating system courses for practical introduction to simple drivers implementation and helps with understanding internal computation world with real world computers interfacing."

1) So this seems to be both an interesting paper and a hard to read paper. And that's a pity.

Editing

Posted Nov 1, 2011 11:48 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Yes, we are only hosting them; as conference proceedings, they are pretty much set in stone at this point.

Proceedings from the 13th Real Time Linux Workshop

Posted Nov 1, 2011 16:46 UTC (Tue) by ppisa (subscriber, #67307) [Link]

Dear pebolle,

sorry for mine and colleague English. We have even contacted some other better skilled person to do some basic language review before articles have been submitted.

As for that concrete UIO article, there is guidepost page for the project

http://rtime.felk.cvut.cz/hw/index.php/Humusoft_MF6xx

and complete sources in GIT repository containing even TeX source file of the article. Help, contribution and patches are welcomed. Wiki write access is possible as well but requires manual registration due to former problems with SPAM.

Best wishes,

Pavel Pisa

Proceedings from the 13th Real Time Linux Workshop

Posted Nov 1, 2011 19:42 UTC (Tue) by btraynor (subscriber, #26672) [Link]

git clone git@rtime.felk.cvut.cz:mf6xx
fails with:
Permission denied (publickey).
...

Also, why bother with a wiki of your own when you can use the RealTime portal on elinux.org? http://elinux.org/Real_Time

Proceedings from the 13th Real Time Linux Workshop

Posted Nov 1, 2011 21:11 UTC (Tue) by ppisa (subscriber, #67307) [Link]

Thanks for notice. R = @all is not enought. I have not catch that because Gitolite knows me. Repository is public and same as for other our public repos, GIT protocol is provided too (git clone git://rtime.felk.cvut.cz/mf6xx.git). Page updated.

Thanks for pointer to other Wiki resources. Our Wiki is mostly our group scratchpad to share our ideas, coordinate projects etc. When some of our projects grows bigger it typically moves to SF or somewhere else. But many infos are too specific to our own HW, SW or others SW local specific use to move it to generic Wiki. mf6xx is small supporting project for education still so the Wiki page serves as the project homepage for now. But we hope that it could be good starting point for others solving similar tasks.

Proceedings from the 13th Real Time Linux Workshop

Posted Nov 1, 2011 23:37 UTC (Tue) by endecotp (guest, #36428) [Link]

> sorry for mine and colleague English.

Your English is excellent, and pebolle is being very fussy to comment on it.

Proceedings from the 13th Real Time Linux Workshop

Posted Nov 3, 2011 18:16 UTC (Thu) by slashdot (guest, #22014) [Link]

Actually, it's fully understandable, but not really "excellent", since it contains several errors.