On Jul 27 2015 10:35 AM, Brian wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 12:29 PM, John Kasunich > <jmkasun...@fastmail.fm> > 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?
That is exactly where I was going with my follow on question. I had assumed that loading the compensation curve is a once only operation. EBo -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
