On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 12:29 PM, John Kasunich <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015, at 12:25 PM, EBo wrote:
>
> >
> > Doesn't HAL have a way to load drivers and other data?  I have not
> > mucked with things at this level for awhile.
> >
>
> Loading the code of drivers (or any other realtime component), yes.
>
> Loading configuration specific data into a driver or other component, not
> really.
>
> The normal way of passing configuration specific data to a component is
> arguments tacked onto the loadrt command.  That works if all you are trying
> to do is tell the parport driver to use the port at 0x378, or tell the
> step generator
> to give you three velocity mode stepgens.  It doesn't scale well to larger
> amounts
> of data (like a 256 point screw compensation curve).
>
> I wonder if we could leverage the fact that the data only needs to be
loaded once, and not randomly accessed.  Maybe something could pass it at
init, or something?
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