On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Kenneth Lerman wrote:

> Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 08:47:44 -0500
> From: Kenneth Lerman <kenneth.ler...@se-ltd.com>
> Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)"
>     <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Ethernet, rtai, and rtnet
> 
>
>
> Jon Elson wrote:
>> Kenneth Lerman wrote:
>>> Jon,
>>>
>>> Don't use rtnet. Just use ethernet point to point to replace a parallel
>>> port. Then there is NO net stack. Just use raw ethernet packets.
>>> Overhead is then a few dozen bytes.
>>>
>> OK, but is there an ethernet driver that is callable within the rt
>> environment?
>> I may have missed such a thing, but I'm not aware of it.
>
> I would think (always a dangerous activity), that if there is a rtnet
> driver available within the rt environment, it could be stripped to just
> the lowest level.


You might not even need to strip it, Maybe its possible to run RTNet in a 
degenerate mode with only one slave given the complete time slot.


>
> Ken
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>> Jon
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