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Building Ethernet Drivers on RTLinux-GPL

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Overview This paper describes how to port Linux Ethernet drivers to RTLinux-GPL (hereafter RTLinux). It presents an architecture that will let Linux and RTLinux to share the same driver while accessing an Ethernet card. This architecture will let real-time applications to access the network as a character device (i.e. using the standard open(), read(), close(), write() and ioctl() calls) and also would let Linux to use the driver as it always did (ifconfig, route, etc.). This paper also discusses some scheduling policies that will give to RTLinux the highest priority while accessing the Ethernet card.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Universidad Politecnica de Valencia	File Format	PDF
Date Published	January 2008
Format	White Papers
Topics	Ethernet, Linux - Open Source

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