TAO/RTAI port

On this page you'll find information about the ongoing project of porting ACE/TAO to the RTAI realtime Linux platform.

If you want to try it out, you'll need to setup a basesystem. We recommend you to use Debian for now (the software is distribution agnostic though), with the GCC 3.3 compiler installed. We are using:

• Debian Woody 3.0r1
• Vanilla Linux 2.4.22 kernel with the RTAI 3.0r3 tree, apply the ADEOS patch to the Linux kernel.
• GCC 3.3.x
• OCI's TAO tarball version 1.3a You can download it here

The current features are :

• Hard and Soft Realtime Collocated CORBA Components
• Non-RT IIOP communication with H/S Realtime CORBA Components
  For example : a CORBA on Windows component communicates with an RTAI Component
• Automated building of libraries and sources (bug reports welcome though)
• Binary compatible with normal GNU/Linux builds (if ACE is not inlined).

We are testing currently the following ORB Services :

• Naming
• Notify
• CosEvent
• Property
• Concurrency
• Time

They should work quite automatically

There's a little test application available which can be used to test and benchmark CORBA collocated calls. It can be downloaded here.


For more information, visit our Project page.


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