RTAI 3.0-test1 released

Hi,

at the RTAI home site: http://www.aero.polimi.it/~rtai/, you'll find
rtai-3.0-test1.

What it contains:

o New modular RTAI infrastructure.

o New configuration interface based on the Kconfig system.

o New build system, particularly improving the cross-compilation
support.

o Extensive refactoring of the core software, with full modularization
of the RTAI features.

o Normalization of the various RTAI interfaces.

o Enhanced real-time support in user-space (LXRT).

o Major revision of RTAI-Lab, the middleware which allows to integrate
Matlab/SCICOS-generated controllers in the RTAI execution environment.

o New traditional RTOS emulators of VRTX32/VRTXsa, pSOS+, VxWorks, and
uITRON APIs, helping the migration of existing industrial applications
to the RTAI environment.

o New simulation tool for developing RTAI applications with no
hardware constraints.

o Fully Doxygen-ized documentation at hand.

And a lot of other improvements aimed at extending the RTAI experience 
(understatement to shorten the list).

It is worth recalling a few (but very) important things:

- The maintainer of the related branch is Philippe Gerum and this
release is the product of his hard work over the past six months. His 
effort has made RTAI a fairly new thing, as it includes his XENOMAI 
also. The fact it is not reflected into a new name due to Philippe's 
generosity only. So the all of it make me (us) owing him a big: THANKS.

- On one hand 3.0 will help in making the transition from the previous 
24.1.xx development thread smoother. The latter will be closed soon to 
any further improvment, with a 24.1.13 release.

- On the other hard further 3.x releases will mark a neat departure from 
the previous work as they will mean the end of RTHAL based development 
for ix86 and all the related work and testing will be based on ADEOS.

- Finally on ix86 the port to Linux 2.6 will be ADEOS based only.

It follows that your are strongly invited to use 3.0-test1 and feedback.

Paolo.

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