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. > 630 Henry Street > Dalton, Ohio 44618 > Phone: (330)828-2105ext. 2031 > > -----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 > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Emc-users mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > 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> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > Peter Wallace > Mesa Electronics > > (\__/) > (='.'=) This is Bunny. Copy and paste bunny into your > (")_(") signature to help him gain world domination. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users 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> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
