[Xenomai-main] ANNOUNCE: Xenomai 0.7

[Philippe Gerum]

At http://freesoftware.fsf.org/download/xenomai/releases/ you will
find the latest release (0.7) of the Xenomai framework. Xenomai aims
at facilitating the migration of applications based on traditional
RTOS to Linux/RTAI (http://www.rtai.org). This development effort led
by our project team at IDEALX has been quite intensive during the last
five months. Among other enhancements, you will find that:

- Reliability and performance of the Xenomai nanokernel has been
improved, especially when running on top of RTAI's RTHAL.

- The pSOS+ API emulator has been updated, and a VRTX/sa API emulator
is underway.

- Xenomai has now its own simulation tool based on an event-driven
virtual machine. This means that you can debug most of the final
real-time code using a RTOS-aware graphical debugger in a comfortable
user-space environment, including your application code, the real-time
interface and the nanokernel.

- Based on this virtual machine, the brand new Virtual RTAI module
allows you to write the hardware-independent part of a kernel-based
RTAI application in userland. In this mode, you actually run the
_original_ code of RTAI's UP-scheduler on top of a simulation engine.
In other words, RTAI developers have now a full-fledged simulation
tool available for their favourite real-time interface.

- An experimental real-time interface called Dualion based on the
direct message-passing paradigm is available on top of the
nanokernel (alpha release).

The main README file describing Xenomai features is available online
at http://freesoftware.fsf.org/download/xenomai/README. Please refer
to the READMEs in the distribution for more in depth explanations.

Last but not least, the Xenomai team wishes to thank Paolo Mantegazza
from the RTAI project and Peter Wurmsdobler from the Thinking Nerds
for their advices and understanding, especially during the 3rd
Real-time Linux Workshop in Milano.

Best regards,

Philippe.

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Philippe Gerum                  IDEALX S.A.S. - OSS Engineering
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