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How to build an RTAI patched kernel from scratch

The Linux Kernel

Installation parameters :

# linux Kernel
kernel_version_major=3
kernel_version_minor=10
kernel_version_patch=32

kernel_version=$kernel_version_major.$kernel_version_minor.$kernel_version_patch
# rtai
rtai_version=4.0

Let's create a nice folder to put everything (make sure you have at least ~2GB free space) :

mkdir ~/linux-$kernel_version-rtai-$rtai_version
cd ~/linux-$kernel_version-rtai-$rtai_version

Prerequisites

For menuconfig to work:

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev kernel-package libc6-dev

And for xconfig to work:

sudo apt-get install qt4-dev-tools

Download the kernel

cd ~/linux-$kernel_version-rtai-$rtai_version
wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v$kernel_version_major.x/linux-$kernel_version.tar.gz
tar xvf linux-$kernel_version.tar.gz
ln -snf linux-$kernel_version linux

RTAI 4.x

Download

ShabbyX repo
git clone https://github.com/ShabbyX/RTAI.git rtai
Deprecated (use shabbyx repo instead)
cd ~/linux-$kernel_version-rtai-$rtai_version
wget --no-check-certificate https://www.rtai.org/userfiles/downloads/RTAI/rtai-$rtai_version.tar.bz2
tar xjf rtai-$rtai_version.tar.bz2
ln -snf rtai-$rtai_version rtai

Let's use your computer's full power (multi-threaded build):

sudo -s
echo "CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=$[$(nproc)+1]" >> /etc/kernel-pkg.conf
exit

Apply the patch to the kernel

cd ~/linux-$kernel_version-rtai-$rtai_version/linux
patch=$(find ~/linux-$kernel_version-rtai-$rtai_version/rtai/base/arch/x86/patches/ -name "*$kernel_version*" | tail -1)
echo "Applying $patch"
patch -p1 -b < $patch

Configure your realtime kernel

cd ~/linux-$kernel_version-rtai-$rtai_version/linux
yes "" | make oldconfig
make xconfig

Example for kernel 3.10.32

  • General Setup ---> local version -append to kernel release: -rtai4.0
  • General Setup ---> Timer Subsystem ---> Timer tick handling ---> Periodic timer ticks (constant rate, no dynticks)
  • General Setup ---> Timer Subsystem ---> High Resolution Timer Support ---> disabled
  • General Setup ---> Enable loadable module support ---> Module versioning support ---> disable
  • Processor type and features ---> Processor Family ---> Core2/nexer Xenon if "more /proc/cpuinfo | grep family" says "6"
  • Processor type and features ---> SMT (Hyperthreading) scheduler support ---> disabled
  • Processor type and features ---> Preemption Model ---> Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop)
  • Processor type and features ---> Timer Frequency ---> 1000 Hz
  • Power management and ACPI options ---> remove everything
  • Power management and ACPI options ---> ACPI ----> remove every thing except Power Management Timer Support (and button, let it be a kernel module (dot) )
  • Power management and ACPI options ---> CPU Frequency scaling ---> disabled
  • Power management and ACPI options ---> Memory Power savings ---> Intel chipset idle memory power saving driver ---> disabled

Save and close the window.

Note: You can find some configuration hints on the xenomai website : http://xenomai.org/2014/06/configuring-for-x86-based-dual-kernels/

Compile the new RT kernel

make-kpkg clean
make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot --initrd kernel_image kernel_headers

Now take a cofee and come back in ~20min.

Install the new RT kernel

cd ~/linux-$kernel_version-rtai-$rtai_version/
sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-$kernel_version-rtai-$rtai_version_$kernel_version-rtai-$rtai_version-10.00.Custom_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux-image-$kernel_version-rtai-$rtai_version_$kernel_version-rtai-$rtai_version-10.00.Custom_i386.deb

Now reboot on the new kernel to test it.