On Sun, 2 Dec 2012, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:

> Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2012 20:01:52 -0600
> From: Charles Steinkuehler <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: EMC developers <[email protected]>
> To: EMC developers <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] xenomai + linuxcnc on 12.04LTS
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> On 12/2/2012 2:27 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote:
>> On 12/2/2012 1:58 PM, Anders Wallin wrote:
>>> Next I hope to work on some stand-alone HAL logic together with
>>> gscreen/GTK gui's. I understand the PCI drivers for mesa cards
>>> etc are still missing but are being worked on?
>>
>> Not my area, but I have hopes for offerings from Charles, et al.
>
> Work is in progress.  It's taking a bit as I don't code in C often and
> it takes a while to come back up to speed.  Plus so far the holidays
> aren't helping (today was spent baking gingerbread houses for my
> daughter's girl scout troop).  :)
>
> I'm hoping to have something that works and is testable by others for
> the 5i25 card I have on-hand in the next day or two (although the code
> will be ugly[1]).  Of course, direct parallel port I/O should be
> working already...
>
> [1] Ugly in this context means statically supporting one board
> (instead of dynamically allocating state memory and creating linked
> lists of the boards found) and probably not supporting x86 I/O ports
> (required for the PLX based Mesa cards).


BTW I/O ports are not required for accessing the PLX cards (the bridge chip 
registers can be accessed as I/O or memory)

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