I am the original author of the FPGA firmware and LinuxCNC drivers for the "pluto-p" board.
Because of computer system changes, I no longer have a system capable of building the FPGA firmware, so I cannot fix bugs which turn out to be on the FPGA side. It's also been a long time since I had a hardware rig with the pluto in it, so I can't test the driver or firmware when changes are proposed. If another maintainer who is capable of building the firmware can make a commitment to be more receptive to issues regarding the pluto-p board than I have been, I would welcome that and happily hand over the reigns. Otherwise, I believe it's better for our users that this driver should be officially deprecated in the upcoming 2.6 release and removed from the master branch after the 2.6 release. The only information I can provide about the firmware development environment is that it used a very outdated version of Altera Quartus which I ran on Windows XP. (whatever the last one was that could build firmwares for the particular fpga chip on the pluto-p) Matsche, I'm cc'ing you directly since you recently expressed interest in the pluto-p via private mail, including some patches that due to my own failings I was unable to accept and incorporate in linuxcnc. If you have an interest in being the maintainer, please reply here on the developers mailing list. Jeff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134791&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
