Yay!! Great work. With the addition of RT_preempt - the mesa Ethernet cards are a breeze!
With wheezy - there is an rt_preempt in the Debian repository. install - reboot - make some small changes to the interface noted here. http://linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/man/man9/hm2_eth.9.html (so other things don't try to access the interface) and you have a real-time Ethernet connection. I have ran this setup for weeks with no real-time issues - I think peter has had systems up for 2/3 a year 24/7. exciting times... sam On 10/29/2014 12:06 AM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > Greetings LinuxCNC people, I bring you glad tidings! > > One of the things we did at the recent Hackfest in Houston was creating > the 2.7 branch. We will test and stabilize the code in this branch, and > when the time is right we will release 2.7.0. I'm hopeful that the time > until 2.7.0 is released is on the order of a handful of months. > > The headline features in 2.7 are: > > * A new high-speed trajectory planned (written by Rob Ellenberg) > * Support for the RT-Preempt realtime kernel (written by Jeff Epler) > > In addition to the new RT-Preempt support, LinuxCNC 2.7 will run on RTAI > and the vanilla Linux kernel just like 2.6 and earlier versions do. > > We are currently targeting the same set of Linux distributions for 2.7 > as we did for 2.6: Ubuntu Lucid, Ubuntu Precise, and Debian Wheezy. The > final set of supported distros may change as we get closer to release. > > This new branch does not mean that 2.6 will go away. I will keep > maintaining the 2.6 branch and making releases as needed. Your CNC > machines running LinuxCNC 2.6 will stay supported with bug fixes for a > good long while still. > > > So, you're asking, how can I help? I'm glad you asked! You can run the > 2.7 pre-releases and submit bug reports! There are probably some rough > edges and possibly lurking bugs that we'd like your help in finding > before we release 2.7.0. You've been warned! > > > The install instructions leave a lot to be desired at the moment, but it > goes like this: > > * Install LinuxCNC 2.6, for example using the instructions here: > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpdatingTo2.6 > > * Upgrade to LinuxCNC 2.7 by picking an apt source line from here: > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpdatingTo2.7 > > > Happy upgrading! Let us know how it works for you. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
