rtems for video games.

Aaron J. Grier aaron at frye.com
Tue May 24 21:39:23 UTC 2005


On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 11:22:09PM +0800, sam wun wrote:
> Is possible to use rtems as a high  performance OS for video games?

sure, for dedicated hardware console, why not?

use (delayed) vertical retrace interrupt for scheduling, put screen
redraws on an RTEMS timer, and use feedback via rate monotonic scheduler
to ensure maximum framerate.

sounds like fun to me.  what is your target hardware?

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  Aaron J. Grier  |   Frye Electronics, Tigard, OR   |  aaron at frye.com



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