Re: [Emc-users] Announcing the LinuxCNC 2.7 branch
A thousand thanks as always! Let's try it out to see how it works :) Leonardo. 2014-10-29 2:06 GMT-03:00 Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com: Greetings LinuxCNC people, I bring you glad tidings! One of the things we did at the recent Hackfest in Houston was creating the 2.7 branch. We will test and stabilize the code in this branch, and when the time is right we will release 2.7.0. I'm hopeful that the time until 2.7.0 is released is on the order of a handful of months. The headline features in 2.7 are: * A new high-speed trajectory planned (written by Rob Ellenberg) * Support for the RT-Preempt realtime kernel (written by Jeff Epler) In addition to the new RT-Preempt support, LinuxCNC 2.7 will run on RTAI and the vanilla Linux kernel just like 2.6 and earlier versions do. We are currently targeting the same set of Linux distributions for 2.7 as we did for 2.6: Ubuntu Lucid, Ubuntu Precise, and Debian Wheezy. The final set of supported distros may change as we get closer to release. This new branch does not mean that 2.6 will go away. I will keep maintaining the 2.6 branch and making releases as needed. Your CNC machines running LinuxCNC 2.6 will stay supported with bug fixes for a good long while still. So, you're asking, how can I help? I'm glad you asked! You can run the 2.7 pre-releases and submit bug reports! There are probably some rough edges and possibly lurking bugs that we'd like your help in finding before we release 2.7.0. You've been warned! The install instructions leave a lot to be desired at the moment, but it goes like this: * Install LinuxCNC 2.6, for example using the instructions here: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpdatingTo2.6 * Upgrade to LinuxCNC 2.7 by picking an apt source line from here: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpdatingTo2.7 Happy upgrading! Let us know how it works for you. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- *Leonardo Marsaglia*. -- ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Announcing the LinuxCNC 2.7 branch
Yay!! Great work. With the addition of RT_preempt - the mesa Ethernet cards are a breeze! With wheezy - there is an rt_preempt in the Debian repository. install - reboot - make some small changes to the interface noted here. http://linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/man/man9/hm2_eth.9.html (so other things don't try to access the interface) and you have a real-time Ethernet connection. I have ran this setup for weeks with no real-time issues - I think peter has had systems up for 2/3 a year 24/7. exciting times... sam On 10/29/2014 12:06 AM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: Greetings LinuxCNC people, I bring you glad tidings! One of the things we did at the recent Hackfest in Houston was creating the 2.7 branch. We will test and stabilize the code in this branch, and when the time is right we will release 2.7.0. I'm hopeful that the time until 2.7.0 is released is on the order of a handful of months. The headline features in 2.7 are: * A new high-speed trajectory planned (written by Rob Ellenberg) * Support for the RT-Preempt realtime kernel (written by Jeff Epler) In addition to the new RT-Preempt support, LinuxCNC 2.7 will run on RTAI and the vanilla Linux kernel just like 2.6 and earlier versions do. We are currently targeting the same set of Linux distributions for 2.7 as we did for 2.6: Ubuntu Lucid, Ubuntu Precise, and Debian Wheezy. The final set of supported distros may change as we get closer to release. This new branch does not mean that 2.6 will go away. I will keep maintaining the 2.6 branch and making releases as needed. Your CNC machines running LinuxCNC 2.6 will stay supported with bug fixes for a good long while still. So, you're asking, how can I help? I'm glad you asked! You can run the 2.7 pre-releases and submit bug reports! There are probably some rough edges and possibly lurking bugs that we'd like your help in finding before we release 2.7.0. You've been warned! The install instructions leave a lot to be desired at the moment, but it goes like this: * Install LinuxCNC 2.6, for example using the instructions here: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpdatingTo2.6 * Upgrade to LinuxCNC 2.7 by picking an apt source line from here: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpdatingTo2.7 Happy upgrading! Let us know how it works for you. -- ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] Announcing the LinuxCNC 2.7 branch
Greetings LinuxCNC people, I bring you glad tidings! One of the things we did at the recent Hackfest in Houston was creating the 2.7 branch. We will test and stabilize the code in this branch, and when the time is right we will release 2.7.0. I'm hopeful that the time until 2.7.0 is released is on the order of a handful of months. The headline features in 2.7 are: * A new high-speed trajectory planned (written by Rob Ellenberg) * Support for the RT-Preempt realtime kernel (written by Jeff Epler) In addition to the new RT-Preempt support, LinuxCNC 2.7 will run on RTAI and the vanilla Linux kernel just like 2.6 and earlier versions do. We are currently targeting the same set of Linux distributions for 2.7 as we did for 2.6: Ubuntu Lucid, Ubuntu Precise, and Debian Wheezy. The final set of supported distros may change as we get closer to release. This new branch does not mean that 2.6 will go away. I will keep maintaining the 2.6 branch and making releases as needed. Your CNC machines running LinuxCNC 2.6 will stay supported with bug fixes for a good long while still. So, you're asking, how can I help? I'm glad you asked! You can run the 2.7 pre-releases and submit bug reports! There are probably some rough edges and possibly lurking bugs that we'd like your help in finding before we release 2.7.0. You've been warned! The install instructions leave a lot to be desired at the moment, but it goes like this: * Install LinuxCNC 2.6, for example using the instructions here: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpdatingTo2.6 * Upgrade to LinuxCNC 2.7 by picking an apt source line from here: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpdatingTo2.7 Happy upgrading! Let us know how it works for you. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
