[ECOS]: Is eCos Hard Real Time OS ??

R Vamshi Krishna vamshi@cse.iitb.ac.in
Fri Jun 24 11:41:00 GMT 2005


On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Andrew Lunn wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 04:37:42PM +0530, R Vamshi Krishna wrote:
>>
>> Is eCos a Hard Real Time OS ?
>
> No, its a soft real time system. It never give guarantees that task X
> will finish by time Z, which is the normal definition of hard real
> time. eCos will do its best to ensure that the high priority task gets
> to run before the low priority task, which for most embedded systems
> is enough.
>
>        Andrew
>
>


Then what parts do I re-write to make it hard-real time ?
Because I want to use eCos but also I need a hard reak-time
OS.

-- Vamshi

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