On Friday 30 April 2021 14:47:00 Alan Condit wrote: > > Kirk, > > I think that one of the ways to re-ignite LinuxCNC is to pull some of > the changes that were done in Machinekit back into LinuxCNC. However, > some (maybe all) of those changes were done with no thought to release > versioning. That being said, those changes were important to some of > the former active development members. I don’t know if we could look > at the changes and possibly merge them into a “3.0” release. > > Just a thought,
And unless you intend to support a platform that while it might be capable of it, has virtually no common i/o hardware with any other platform. I suspect that 90% of the changes would wind up compiled out on more mainstream hardware. arm stuff like the pi's have much of that already done by the distro, all it needs is either support for high speed spi, or 2 network ports as PCW has seen to it that I/O facilities for both are well supported, the only thing missing is a good realtime kernel, we have to run that down and build it ourselves as the only support from raspian is the kernel source for 4.19.something, you are absoutely considered blasphemous for asking questions about it on their forum. You can ask where to get it, but no other questions about it will be dignified with an answer. The net result, since the pi uses a different boot partition organization format than all the other arm offerings, was that I invented my own kernel install proceedure that only needs a small tarball made from that kernels build, which you unpack to its u-sd boot card, along with fixing the fstab and e/n/i files in a card reader. Done and it Just Works. But that kernel is now getting old. So while machine-kit may have stuff for LinuxCNC in it, I don't see that its anything you would want to build on any other platforms than the BBB. My $0.02. > Alan > > > From: Kirk Wallace wrote: > > It would be good to see LinuxCNC become more active again. > > > > Sincerely, Kirk Wallace > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > 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 Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
