There was a post over at the Thing-printer Google + pages that Sam Wong is. See his github: https://github.com/sam0737/machinekit-replicape
On Monday, May 8, 2017 at 5:03:51 PM UTC-4, hypers...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi, > > I just bought a replicape rev B3A and wanted to use it on machinekit and I > ran to several problems. > > Does someone has an updated machinekit configuration script to support the > revB? The DAC has been removed (easy fix) but the stepper drivers are > different and the SPI that configure them has changed. > > I reprogrammed the eeprom to 00B3 to allow the device tree overlay to load > the corresponding BB-BONE-REPLICAP-00B3.dtbo > > I tried the images at this link: > > http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#BBW.2FBBB_.28All_Revs.29_Machinekit > > *bone-debian-8.7-machinekit-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb.img.xz* > This image runs a kernel 3.8 Xenomai and doesn't recognize the Replicape > board right away. > The installed dtbo has been compiled for kernel 4.4 and GPIOs indexes are > wrong. I replaced gpioN to gpioN+1 and recompiled. > But I just find out that the machinekit configuration script > (ARM/beaglebone/replicape) is incompatible for this board. > > *bone-debian-8.7-machinekit-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz* > This image runs a kernel 4.4 Xenomai and recognize the Replicape. > I had to install beaglebone 4.4.65-bone-rt-r17 > because 4.4.62-ti-xenomai-r99 cause the machinekit loading (even > simulations) to fail: > * /usr/libexec/linuxcnc/rtapi_app_posix: No such file or directory* > But the current configuration is for kernel 3.8. The script is looking in > /sys/devices/bone_capemgr.* instead of /sys/devices/platform/bone_capemgr > and I suspect that it's unable to load the PRU firmware. > > Thanks > -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: https://github.com/machinekit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Machinekit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to machinekit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
