Linux Trace Toolkit Reference Manual
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2.Installation

2.1 Patched Kernel and Kernel module

This discussion concerns a plain vanilla Linux.

2.2 RTAI patch

Prior to doing the following, you need to be familiar with RTAI's installation. See the documentation accompanying RTAI to know more about the installation process.

2.3 User-land tools

The user-land tools build and installation process is managed by autoconf/automake. The usual commands provided by these tools are available. As usual ...

RTAI is enabled by default. This will not make any difference for the viewing of normal Linux traces. It will simply enable the event database to recognize another event format along with enabling the visualizer to display RTAI traces correctly.

That's it! By now, you should have a patched kernel ready to be used, as well as the other software to be able to fetch the results and view them. The next section will now help you use all this!


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Linux trace toolkit Installation