2012/3/17 Scott Hasse <scott.ha...@gmail.com>: > With respect to "messing it up", the hal and ini file are as they are > directly generated from pncconf.
It just makes difficult for any observer to understand, what is going on there. > The source simply does an input and I am > doing that to keep the configuration modular. I run various configurations > on this machine, and can pick and choose configurations by sourcing > different sub-hal files in the custom hal. Specifying to load analog-in.hal directly in INI file would do the same - You can always comment out that line, if that file should not be loaded at a particular moment and uncomment another line to load another HAL file instead. Using custom.hal just adds unnecessary layer. If it works and You understand it - very good. But remember that if You will ever want somebody else to understand it, then it can cause frustration. I think that in situations like this it is best to stick to KISS principle (Keep It Simple and Stupid). 2012/3/17 Scott Hasse <scott.ha...@gmail.com>: >> But this is really really wasteful > > Presuming my PC can handle a reasonable base-thread rate, is it really > wasteful of a scarce resource? AFAIK having or not having a base thread - yes, it can make a difference in the realtime performance of Your PC. If I recall correctly, You had set base-thread to 10000 ns. I am 100% sure that You are getting realtime error messages. > It seems if I want to use a "real" encoder counter given my configuration > I'll need a custom 5i23 firmware? That is what I told since the very beginning - use encoder module in 5i23... You have loaded 4 pwmgens and 4 encoders and are using only 3 of them. So You a spare encoder module to attach the frequency input to. BTW why do You have 4 stepgens loaded, if You use only one? That also is a little waste of resources :) If You would load 1 stepgen, then those pins, currently occupied by 3 unused stepgen instances would be available as gpio pins. Here is a small table with several fimwares listed. Installing 5i23 firmware package from LinuxCNC repository (I suspect that You already did that) should provide You with them: http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/drivers_hostmot2.html#r1_11 As You can see, there are bitfiles, that offer 8 encoder modules along with pwmgens and stepgens. Viesturs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
