The Linux Interest Group is holding an open meeting during the first day of the next meeting of the Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum which takes place on 6th-8th February, 2001, at the Doubletree Hotel, San Jose, California.

Tuesday Afternoon (Open to non-members) — The Profiles working group are holding an open session on Linux. They also will be meeting on Thursday morning.

Linux Interest Session (Tuesday 2:00 — 5:30pm) — This track consists of three interactive briefing/discussion sessions, each 45 minutes in length.

• RTLinux technology and POSIX 1003.13 — Victor Yodaiken, FSM Labs — RTLinux is a POSIX PSE51 (minimal) real time operating system that runs a PSE54 (full) operating system (Linux) as its lowest priority thread. This session will cover the technology that makes such an architecture possible, performance, and the application programmers view of a system in which a realtime thread operate in an threads/signals environment that contains within it a general purpose kernel and POSIX processes. The RTLinux architecture will be contrasted with the traditional “real-time UNIX” designs and with competing views of real-time in Linux.

• Embedded Linux — Rick Lehrbaum, LinuxDevices.com — Linux is rapidly emerging as an excellent Embedded Operating System. This session discusses the status of Linux as an embedded operating system and the good and bad points of using Embedded Linux. It also reviews some interesting data collected in the LinuxDevices.com Embedded Linux Market Study about reasons why developers are interested in using Embedded Linux and open source software, etc.

• Real Time Enhancements for Linux — George Anzinger, MontaVista Inc. — A discussion of MontaVista's efforts to transform Linux into a fully preemptable kernel without compromising throughput-based performance. This session will discuss MontaVista's Linux Real Time scheduler and modifications to the Linux kernel to enable full preemption. The talk will cover the Real Time scheduling algorithm as well as priority inheritance semaphores and other protection methods used to dramatically improve system responsiveness. Responsiveness improvements and throughput impacts will be reviewed.

• Embedded Linux — Phil Wilshire, Lineo, Inc. — this session discusses the good and bad points of using Embedded Linux and examine some of the tools available to develop embedded applications. These will include code development, cross compilers, and target debugging. An Overview of different Embedded Linux applications using several different target platforms will be presented. This will be followed by a brief roadmap of expected future developments.

• Panel Discussion

The full agenda and registration information is available here.

 
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