[time-nuts] FreeBSD, NetBSD, or Minix-III?

[Chuck Harris]

Lux, James P wrote:

>> I don't believe that will be happening in a message passing microkernel
>> (like minix) anytime soon... unless you build all of the timekeeping
>> software into the kernel, and then you are in the process of becoming
>> a monolithic kernel ;-)
>>
> 
> Or, do what I'm doing for a software radio that uses RTEMS, do the critical
> timing stuff in hardware, and the software just manages the hardware.

That's fine, as long as the critical timing stuff never has to
pass into code space.  If it does, then you are stuck with the
OS's latency issues.

-Chuck Harris