D Programming/RTAI/User Space Interrupts

RTAI has user space interrupts called RTAI USI.

Let Linux assign a IRQ number for you PCI device

But before one can use them, the hardware interrupt has to be mapped to interrupt in Linux. Therefore it is necessary to build a kernel module for the pci device, that registers the interrupt. With this action, the device gets a new interrupt number, which can be used in the usi.

Writing an interrupt handler

Create a realtime thread:

In the thread make a loop, looking like that:

public void run(){
  const int irqNum = 5;
  rt_request_irq_task( irqNum, null, RT_IRQ_TASK, 1 );
  rt_startup_irq( irqNum );
  rt_enable_irq( irqNum );
  while( true ){
    int overrun = rt_irq_wait( irqNum );
    if( overrun == RT_IRQ_TASK_ERR )
      break;
    // if program should quit, break here
    // Do the irq handling
    rt_ack_irq();
  }
  rt_release_irq_task( irqNum );
}