Re: [RTnet-developers] About Driver Implementation

[Jan K. <jan...@we...>]

On 2013-10-11 10:16, Ilesh Patel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I want to implement Panda board's ethernet driver for RTnet.So, Is it
> possible to implement ?  how ?
> 
> 
> Panda board having Ethernet interface via usb.it is based on OMAP4430
> 
> For,Panda board system reference manual
> http://pandaboard.org/sites/default/files/board_reference/pandaboard-ea1/panda-ea1-manual.pdf
> 

Possible, but lots of work and likely suboptimal latencies due to USB
being in the loop. What is lacking for this support is not only the
Ethernet driver itself but also a realtime stack for the USB controller.
There is the usb4rt, but it is USB 1.1 only.

Jan