On Tuesday 02 July 2019 10:43:37 Alan Condit wrote: > Gene, > If you can afford it and if it is actually available, you might want > to upgrade to the $55 version of the pi4. It has 4gb of ram on it. > Alan > I probably will, but that all depends on whether or not the rpspi.ko module will run on the 4. Bertho went out of his way to detect what it was running on and if not a pi3b+, takes an exit 0. So I'm in no hurry as it will take a while to do that conversion. Or write another replacement.
> > Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2019 19:01:02 -0400 > > From: Gene Heskett <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Updates > > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" > > > > On Monday 01 July 2019 14:10:46 Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > >> On 7/1/19 11:55 AM, andy pugh wrote: > >>> On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 at 17:09, Sebastian Kuzminsky > >>> > >>> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>> Also when I look at this page > >>>>> http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/dists/stretch/ > >>>>> <http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/dists/stretch/> it shows master > >>>>> and 2.7 haven?t been updated since 09-Jun > >>>> > >>>> Oops! Fixed, thanks for letting me know. > >>> > >>> Any plans for a Buster Buildbot? > >> > >> I'd very much like to add Buster builders to the Buildbot. > >> > >> LinuxCNC builds on Buster and the tests pass, so run-in-place style > >> build-and-test should be doable today. > >> > >> But some parts of LinuxCNC have runtime dependencies that are not > >> available in Buster. We'd have to figure out what to do about > >> those parts before we can start shipping Buster debs... > > > > I had a similar problem installing what I built on the pi running > > realtime stretch when I went to install what I had built, following > > your instructions that use dpkg-buildpackage. When I ran apt to > > install those dependencies, I wound up with a downgrade of an > > already installed package. apt recommended a --fix-broken, which > > apparently completed the removal of the updated package, then > > finished the install, and linuxcnc is running normally now. > > > > I found a realtime-buster and put it on a card about 1:30 ago, and > > it booted to a text login but without finding either the keyboard or > > the mouse, so that u-sd is in my pocket, waiting the RealtimePi to > > finish a buster conversion, but I already know the video will still > > crawl as it downgrading the buster 4.19.50 kernel to a 4.14.114, > > which I do not think has the new video drivers in it kit. We'll see > > in 2 or 3 hours when thats done. If it doesn't bail out early > > because the ssd went read-only. That faint knocking sound? Yup. :) > > Its probably warming up the pi some too as I see by the build.log, > > that make was issued with a -j4 argument. > > > >>> Is it worth looking at cross-compiling for armhf if native arm > >>> boards are not reliable enough? > >>> (It's not particularly useful for build process testing, but > >>> having the debs would at least get some users testing) > > > > Like me. But I'm actually building on the pi, and I'm not hiding it, > > if it works I have zero objections to shareing what works here. > > > > I'm not doing much to a git clone except setting the ARCH=arm. For > > my purposes I could probably strip it (the buster image) to half the > > size it is now by making modules out of stuff I don't use here. I > > don't use any sound and wifi is disabled too to keep the neighbors > > out. I don't think they are doing it on purpose but they've used as > > much as 80G one month before I disabled it in dd-wrt, and I can't > > bridge to anyplace but my own net from the pi. And I don't need to > > setup iptables on every machine to keep the curious from snooping. > > > >> I'd much rather do native arm builds, both because of the test > >> coverage issue you mentioned and also to keep the build process > >> unified across hardware architectures. > > > > Take care Seb. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
