Is building LinuxCNC for the BB and running Machinekit two different things?
Why wouldn't you just build LinuxCNC for it, and just add a component for the IO pins instead of the paraport component? Danny ---- John Kasunich <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2016, at 01:55 PM, andy pugh wrote: > > On 19 October 2016 at 18:39, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Anybody familiar with this? > > > > Somewhat. Machinekit is a fork of LinuxCNC, so many things are exactly > > the same. The split was a few years ago now, so there has been some > > divergence, but they probbaly look very similar indeed to a user. > > > > I looked into machinekit because I wanted to use a BeagelBone. I found the > user-level documentation to be disappointing. Things that are the same in > machinekit and LinuxCNC inherited the good LinuxCNC documentation. I can't > say enough good things about what John Thornton (and others) have done for > our documentation. Unfortunately things that are new in machinekit (and thus > the reason I wanted to use it) are barely documented at all. > > Recently Jeff Epler and others have figured out how to build LinuxCNC for > beaglebone, so I came back to my roots and am happy. > > -- > John Kasunich > [email protected] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
