This brief technical article summarizes a project of porting RTLinux to the MIPS Atlas board with MIPS 4Kc core, in an effort to develop a suitable real-time environment for system-on-chip based applications such as multimedia and VoIP gateways, routers, etc. As part of the project, the team measured the response time of the real-time interrupts and the scheduler, and compared it to that of the standard… Linux kernel (the results are tabulated).

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