Robot control software is a typical application applying real-time Linux as a hard real-time operating system. The author's software was originally running under MS-DOS. Problems of adapting it for real-time Linux are presented. This paper describes internal structure of the software as it had to be divided into a hard real-time part (a kernel module) and a standard Linux process part.

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