Some random thoughts/discussion. To be useful a stand-alone HAL package also needs tools for building HAL networks. These include halscope, halmeter, siggen, etc. as well as any future insanely great visual HAL-netlist creation and visualization software. Hardware-drivers should also be included in the HAL-package, or perhaps packaged individually so you only need to install the ones you want.
Non-conventional HAL-applications (temperature-controller, datalogger, weather-station, etc) require non-conventional hardware drivers. There's a bunch of work on DAQ cards with linux at http://www.comedi.org/ I wonder how much work is involved in using a comedi driver through HAL? I am interested in developing small embedded controllers/user-interfaces for various lab-applications such as temperature control, datalogging etc. These would also require some sort of user-interface, similar to pyvcp or gladevcp, which would work on a minimal linux-install (some embedded boards do not have gpu/cpu power to run a full X install). Anders On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Chris Morley <chrisinnana...@hotmail.com>wrote: > This was a tabled item from the last meeting. > The consensus seemed to be the idea had merit but discussion was needed. > > Micheal's proposal was a 'machiekit' package that included: > > "Machinekit would be HAL+RTAPI+NML replacement (zeromq+protobuf)" > > The idea here is that HAL is a great piece of code that has a fairly easy > boundary > to break it out of liuxcnc. > > Then other projects could use it and hopefully improve it and maybe join > our group. > Modularity also makes it easier for people to digest the code so as to be > able to contribute. > John K's original idea for HAL was similar (as I understand it). > > I'm for all it. > > I'm not sure of the downside other then it's work to do. > I assume others wish to discuss the NML replacement > > Chris M > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: > > Build for Windows Store. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
