HW Wiki page</a>.</p>
<h2 id="platformselect">RT-Capable Platform and Kernel</h2>
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Standard distribution Linux kernel does not guarantee bounded latencies for many operations.
The use of <a href="http://rt.wiki.kernel.org/">real-time variant</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux">Linux</a>
kernel is required to make system durable. This kernel variants minimizes regions
where switch to the highest priority (i.e. Linux ERT generated) task is blocked by
kernel when servicing system calls for other tasks.
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Selection of the right version of the kernel is not enough for non-disruptive
operation. Computer system hardware selection is critical as well. The system
has to provide enough computational power for compiled in blocks data evaluation
processing. The SMI enable and processing is under BIOS and motherboard vendor control
and this problem cannot be resolved by operating system. This means that proper
hardware selection is critical.
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A long period evaluation data of different combinations of Linux kernel version
-runing on many CPU architectures and boards from many vendors is (see <a href="http://www.osadl.org/">OSADL</a>
-<a href="http://www.osadl.org/Quality-assurance-at-the-OSADL-QA-Farm.osadl-services-qa.0.html">Quality Assurance Farm</a>)
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+runing on many CPU architectures and boards from many vendors is <a href="http://www.osadl.org/">OSADL</a>
+<a href="http://www.osadl.org/Quality-assurance-at-the-OSADL-QA-Farm.osadl-services-qa.0.html">Quality Assurance Farm</a>.
According to these track records carefully selected x86 or embedded GNU/Linux system can run
real-time tasks with sampling frequencies up to 20 kHz with no losing sample per months.
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<h2 id="download">Source Code and Download</h2>