This is in my best interest.  :)
My tripodkins cable printer would be much nicer, without an Ethernet cable
running to it.

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 5:01 PM, Bas de Bruijn <b...@basdebruijn.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 26 Jul 2017, at 21:03, Daren Schwenke <darenschwe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I would be happy to help with this.
> Point me to an image I should use to get started and I'll have the
> physical up this evening.
>
>
> Thanks for helping out Daren!
>
> My version of cross compiling is probably not what is used anymore, so I
> may need some help there as well.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Charles Steinkuehler <
> char...@steinkuehler.net> wrote:
>
>> On 7/26/2017 11:06 AM, Robert Nelson wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Charles Steinkuehler
>> > <char...@steinkuehler.net> wrote:
>> >> On 7/26/2017 10:12 AM, Robert Nelson wrote:
>> >>> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 8:43 PM, Daren Schwenke <
>> darenschwe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>> I can confirm the both the BBG and BBGW will boot with this image
>> from an SD
>> >>>> card:
>> >>>> https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-02-12/machinek
>> it/bone-debian-8.7-machinekit-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb.img.xz
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Getting wireless to actually work is a whole other ball game which I
>> have
>> >>>> yet to achieve, but at least the image boots now.
>> >>>
>> >>> Correct, that "3.8.x" based image will support the BBGW/BBBW but with
>> >>> wireless disabled.  To enable wireless, sadly you will need a v4.4.x+
>> >>> kernel.  While we have a xenomai based v4.4.x build, it's based on
>> >>> Xenomai 3.0.x, and not the 2.6.x based Xenomai machinekit expects..
>> >>
>> >> Machinekit can also run with the 4.x preempt_rt kernel on the 'bone,
>> >> but the PRU driver hasn't been updated for the re-arranged files in
>> >> /sysfs so it won't work "out of the box".
>> >
>> > What is it looking for in /sysfs? With the v4.4.x-rt we can enable the
>> > 3.8.13 compatible uio driver, then as long as config-pin is used, it
>> > should sync up with what it use to do with 3.8.13..
>>
>> IIRC, several of the setup scripts are looking for the slots file to
>> verify/load an overlay, some code is looking for the ADC entries in
>> sysfs (which have moved IIRC), and the actual HAL driver for the PRU
>> may have a sysfs path or two hard-coded (I'd have to check).
>>
>> So nothing really that complex (particularly vs. updating to Xenomai
>> 3), but a 4.x kernel won't work without a few tweaks and maybe a bit
>> of coding.
>>
>> Anyone with a BBG/BBGW want to try getting things running with a 4.x
>> kernel?  I can provide guidance and maybe do the bit of coding if
>> someone's willing to help with the shell scripts and do testing.
>>
>> Deemarc / Daren?
>>
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