Sebastian, >> Yes please! As far as I know you're the first person to actually configure a whole machine with hostmot2. It'd probably be helpful for others if you showed them how you did it.
The configurations should be added under configs/hostmot2. Do you have CVS commit access? If not you can email me the config files and I'll be happy to add them for you. << I have CVS commit access, what I don't know how to do is how to commit or add something outside of the src tree. At least I have never tried before, and I know when I do commits local changes to my configurations don't get committed. >> I agree that the PIN files should be more accessible, but I'm not sure the config directory is the place for them. The *firmware* determines the pinout, and all the config can do is turn of some module instances and let their pins revert to gpio. The .PIN files are provided by Mesa, one for each .BIT file. They're currently in src/hal/drivers/mesa-hostmot2/firmware/*, and I dont think they get installed with the debian package... Maybe the PIN files should be installed in /usr/share/doc/emc2? << Yes. Basically they should go someplace where they are accessible if all one does is to install from the precompiled packages. It should not require digging through the source folders. John's post came in as I was writing this, that is probably a good suggestion too. I also had a bit of tunnel vision when looking at the pin files only for my application. Obviously they should match the BIT files. >> That looks like a pinout for the SVST8_4 firmware (8 servos and 4 steppers), similar to this one: <http://cvs.linuxcnc.org/cvs/emc2/src/hal/drivers/mesa-hostmot2/firmware/5i2 0/SVST8_4.PIN?rev=1.1> Different firmwares will have different pinouts. << See how hard they are to find. :) I sort of knew what I was looking for and still missed them. The one thing I would like to see in the PIN file, or if generated automatically by post editing of the file, is to add the GPIO mapping. While basically trivial, the pin naming convention used requires adding 24 or 48 to pin names when using the pins off of the P3 and P4 connectors. Adding that can eliminate some confusion. Regards, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
