MOST Linux Drivers (Linux and RTDM)

Introduction

This modules contain a MOST driver framework for Linux. See the Diploma Thesis for a whole overview about the various kernel modules.

Requirements

You need

• Linux kernel 2.6.14 or higher including sources
• gcc 3.x or 4.x to compile the modules
• Doxygen to build this documentation
• RTAI 3.3 or higher (with RTDM built and installed) if you want to use the real-time drivers for RTAI
• Xenomai 2.1 or higher (with RTDM built) if you want to use the real-time drivers for Xenomai
• userspace programs and libraries to use the driver

See also

• Compilation and Installation
• Loading the modules
• Testing the Driver
• MOST ALSA Driver (based on the MOST Synchronous Driver)

TODO

• most-sync.ko, most-sync-rt.ko: If an overflow of the buffer happens (ISR receives data but cannot store it because the buffer is full), there must be set a flag so that the USP application can handle the error.
• add udev support (at the moment, static device files are used with the scripts that create and remove the device files mentioned above)
• implement select/poll system calls
• maybe use debugfs (but currently there's no debug information there although that was planned)
• see also Todo List

About this Document

This document contains the source-code documentation. Just start browsing with the "Modules" tab on the top of this page. The whole driver including this documentation is licensed in terms of GNU GPL (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html).

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