Hi Jason, just some snippets from the RTAI mailing list: (Thread called "[Rtai] rtai on a ppc405 (Xilinx XUP Boad)" from the 1st February 2008)
"> - Is it possible to use a newer Kernel than 2.6.14, are there any more patches? > At the moment no. Newer patches requires adapting to Linux powerpc framework, not ppc. With the hardware I have, a small 9 year old G3 portable Mac, the only witness of externally gifted hardware support in all of the RTAI history, compiling and testing the kernel and RTAI directly on it is a bit of pain. I know I should install a cross development environment to speed things up, but at the moment I've little time and space to make it ready to use. The only witnesses I know of the use of the latest RTAI for PPC are on G3 and G4 UP CPUs, 7xxx series I think. Notice that it is just for UP at the moment. There is an effort underway on a Mac G5 but is still at the verification stage using 3.6, the ppc environment and 2.6.14. It should end on powerpc environment and thus more recent paches but I've no scheduling authority on it. On my side I've a plan to use ppc/powerpc on a new project but I'll talk of it only if I'll be able to make it take off. Paolo" Reading that thread, it seems you should start by using 2.6.14 and RTAI 3.6. Let us know how things go along. Maybe we should move this thread over to emc-developers Good luck & best regards, Alex ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 9:45 AM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Running on a G4 MAc (new world) > Paul, > I am about ready to start on the mac port :) > I am trying to decide onwhich way to go. > > 1. install xcode and try to get rtai to work on a 10.4 10.5 kernel. I > have done a bit of digging into this and havent had much luck in finding > anyone who has don it. downfall as i dont know anything about howto > program or run in OS X. realy i am a n00b here > > 2. install ubuntu 6.06 as that is the lattest for a PPC class cpu. i > think i still remomber how to manualy do a patch from the rtlinux ad > NIST days. at least i know linux :). > > 3. unknown to me at this stage. > > either way, it should be this week that i start to give it a go > > Jason > > On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 07:45 +1100, Jason Cox wrote: >> thanks for that Paul. i will look into it soon. >> Jason >> On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 18:15 +0000, paul_c wrote: >> > Hi Jason >> > >> > On Wednesday 06 February 2008 02:59, Jason Cox wrote: >> > > As i started this thread, i should put my hand up, but there are a >> > > few >> > > problems at the moment. I have just started uni (after 10 years) and >> > > I >> > > would need a guide for setting up a development environment on OSX. >> > >> > All you need is xcode which should be on your installation CD (or DVD), >> > if >> > not, you can easily download it from the Apple Developer's site at >> > http://developer.apple.com/ - You'll probably need to create a user >> > account >> > first.. >> > >> > The xcode package provides all the tools and libraries needed to get >> > started, >> > even an IDE if you don't like the command line. >> > >> > >> > Regards, Paul. >> > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
