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- | ====== How to participate RTL? ====== | + | ====== Participation ====== |
- | RTL comprises the topics as development, documentation and testing of | + | The RTL project is looking for people who are interested to work with us |
- | PREEMPT_RT. The progress of RTL can be speed up by help of the | + | in the areas of testing, documentation and development. |
- | community improving those three topics. | + | |
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+ | <WRAP half column> | ||
+ | ===== Testing ===== | ||
+ | Testing is one of the most important tasks in any project. We have only | ||
+ | access to a limited number of boards and we can only run generic | ||
+ | procedures. We would appreciate if you run RT on your hardware with your | ||
+ | application specific test cases. | ||
- | <WRAP half column> | + | If you run into problems, then you have two options: |
- | ===== Development ===== | + | |
- | There are several development | + | * Report the problem. See [[realtime:communication:bugreport|"Reporting a bug"]] for further information |
+ | |||
+ | * Analyze the problem and submit a patch. Don't worry if you think that your patch is not perfect. It's a start and at least you share the analysis of the problem. See [[realtime:communication:send_rt_patches|"Submitting a patch"]] for further information. | ||
</WRAP> | </WRAP> | ||
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===== Documentation ===== | ===== Documentation ===== | ||
- | The RTL wiki is used for documentation of RTL. Therefore the state | + | We need help in creating and maintaining content in this wiki. Part of the |
- | of the art content of [[https://rt.wiki.kernel.org|rt.wiki.kernel.org]] | + | effort is to cherry pick pages of the [[http://rt.wiki.kernel.org|old wiki]] which |
- | needs to be moved into this wiki and several topics needs to be created. | + | contain valuable information, transfer them to the new wiki and bring them |
- | Before getting an editor, please consider the steps to [[realtime:edit_guideline|create an account | + | up to date. We also look for editors to document areas which are missing |
- | as well as the editing guideline]]. | + | completely. |
- | Afterwards have a look at the task list and select a topic (topics, | + | [[realtime:rtl:wikilist|Here]] you can find an incomplete list of topics which need help. |
- | that are important but not yet listed, are welcome): | + | |
- | </WRAP> | + | If you pick a topic to work on, please mark it with your name in the |
+ | list. If you chose to pick a topic which is not in the list, please add it | ||
+ | and assign it to yourself. | ||
+ | Please see the [[realtime:edit_guideline|wiki guideline]] to get started. | ||
+ | |||
+ | </WRAP> | ||
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- | ===== Testing ===== | + | ===== Development ===== |
- | You have a hardware running PREEMPT_RT and there are some problems with PREEMPT_RT? You already fixed it with a patch? | + | If you want to help with the development and mainlining effort of RT please |
+ | contact [[rt@linutronix.de|us]]. | ||
- | Then please consider the [[realtime:bugreport|"Reporting a bug"]]. | + | The topics, that need to be handled to get PREEMPT_RT mainlined are listed on |
+ | the [[realtime:rtl:start|RTL Collaborative Project page]]. | ||
+ | |||
+ | An overview about features that are disabled by CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL=y are listed [[realtime:documentation:known_limitations#disabled-config_-options|here]]. (The | ||
+ | support of those features with PREEMPT_RT_FULL is not a main part of the RTL project.) | ||
</WRAP> | </WRAP> | ||
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+ | <WRAP rightalign>Go back to [[realtime:rtl:start|RTL Collaborative Project Page]]</WRAP> | ||
+ | <WRAP rightalign>Go back to [[realtime:start|Real-Time Main Page]]</WRAP> | ||
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