Chris, This might be a good time to start looking at Linuxcnc 3.0? Major differences deserve time to make them happen right.
Alan > Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2018 19:05:48 +0000 > From: Chris Morley <chrisinnana...@hotmail.com> > To: EMC DEV <emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: [Emc-developers] Breakout of HAL/ machinekits's HAL > Message-ID: > > <cy1pr05mb22506fd52585a3d57cfc4eefc0...@cy1pr05mb2250.namprd05.prod.outlook.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I see that machinekit has broken out HAL and cnc (Well and lots of others) > into different repositories. > > https://github.com/machinekit > > [https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/6759549?s=280&v=4]<https://github.com/machinekit> > > machinekit ? GitHub<https://github.com/machinekit> > github.com > GitHub is where people build software. More than 28 million people use GitHub > to discover, fork, and contribute to over 85 million projects. > > It also seems they have updated HAL considerably, > > They were working on RT multicore support, anytime instantiation of HAL > components > > cython support.. probably other stuff - I'm not sure if it includes ARM or > FPGA upgrades. > > > I was thinking that maybe linuxcnc should discuss if that is something that > would be of interested. > > > pros I see: > > -chance to break HAL out of cnc stack > > -seemingly an upgrade in capability > > -someone else has done a lot of work/testing already > > -might allow more cross work of developers between the projects > > > cons: > > -surely a lot of work to incorporate (though it does support legacy code, if > I understand right) > > -lack of experience with concepts/code - will take time to become comfortable > > -we'd have to admit they are not bad people :) > > > Ok that last one was meant as fun. > > > There are very smart and hard working people on both projects, it would be > nice to benefit both > > projects. > > > I have not really looked at the code, nor am qualified to give indepth > opinion of the code. > > I have watched the video of the multicore idea. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brT0bEkJLSY > > There are more videos (including one about the trajectory planner that we now > use) > > > Thoughts? > > > Chris M > _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
