On Monday 22 April 2019 14:51:37 Todd Zuercher wrote:

> I have even installed Debian 9 from an ordinary Debain ISO (not
> Linuxcnc), then installed the Preempt-RT kernel using Synaptic
> (Ordinary Debian repositories), then installed Linuxcnc from Buildbot
> also using Synaptic.  (without having to jump through any special
> hoops).
>
That, combined with Peters answer, seems to indicate I'd better regrow my 
somewhat atrophied frogs legs and jump right in because the day of a 
homespun, special distro .iso just for linuxcnc may be over. I assume 
you get your src's from the linux-rt list announcements?  I am subbed to 
that list so I do see them.

> Now for the asterisk, That was only in a VM to see if it could be
> done, I never tried it on real hardware, or ran a machine with it.
>
> Todd Zuercher
> P. Graham Dunn Inc.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter C. Wallace <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2019 2:23 PM
> To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)
> <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] possibly
> good news for LinuxCNC
>
> On Mon, 22 Apr 2019, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 13:30:07 -0400
> > From: Gene Heskett <[email protected]>
> > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)"
> >     <[email protected]>
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] possibly good news for LinuxCNC
> >
> > On Monday 22 April 2019 11:48:58 Peter C. Wallace wrote:
> >> On Mon, 22 Apr 2019, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 10:58:01 -0400
> >>> From: Gene Heskett <[email protected]>
> >>> Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)"
> >>>     <[email protected]>
> >>> To: [email protected]
> >>> Subject: [Emc-users] possibly good news for LinuxCNC
> >>>
> >>> Maybe this will be the icing on the cake for LinuxCNC to make the
> >>> jump to 3.0?
> >>>
> >>> <https://linux.slashdot.org/story/19/04/21/1939201/linux-52-will-i
> >>>nt roduce-the-fieldbus-subsystem>
> >>>
> >>> Hopefully this will re-introduce real time control to a 64 bit
> >>> kernel.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers, Gene Heskett
> >>> --
> >>> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
> >>> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> >>> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> >>> Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
> >>
> >> Umm, I've been running real time 64 bit Linux (Preempt-RT) for
> >> about 7 years...
> >
> > Then why do we not have an installable 64 bit based .iso on the
> > downloads page our site points to?  Seems to me if we had one, it
> > would be there just for bragging rights. The 64 bit stuff is labeled
> > simulation only. Not for machine control.
>
> The closest currently is the LinuxCNC + 2.7.14 Stretch ISO here:
>
> http://www.linuxcnc.org/testing-stretch-rtpreempt/
>
>
> Though for X86 its pretty easy to build a Preempt-RT kernel (even a
> very new 5.xx kernel for new hardware support) and run linuxCNC on
> most Debian based distributions (I have it running on Ubuntu 18.04,
> Mint 18, Mint 19, Debian Stretch, Debian Wheezy, BunsenLabs Linux ATM)
>
> > I've also noted that anything for the my pi has done a vanishing act
> > also, no updates for my pi driven Sheldon lathe in months now. 
> > There are video driver updates I could use from raspian, but I'd
> > have to unpin the kernel and let it install a non-realtime kernel to
> > use them. So I'm stuck with a very old copy of master on the
> > Sheldon. Its running moderately well if after every reboot, I call
> > up the keyboard/mouse configurator and slow the keyboard repeat down
> > below 15/sec, otherwise it bombards the i/o with a 250+ a sec
> > keyboard repeat, and that causes all sorts is missed keyup events.
> > until thats slowed down.  Then it generally runs well till the next
> > power bump.
>
> I haven't noticed any KB issues with our RPI test machine (its been
> running 24/7 with a SPI interfaced 7C80 since last July, it _was_
> neccesary to enable hardware OpenGL or the backplot was dreadfully
> slow...
>
> >> Peter Wallace
> >> Mesa Electronics
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> > --
> > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
> > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> > -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
> >
> >
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>



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