Re: [Emc-developers] Future directions of LinuxCNC development, was custom EDM configuration questions

2013-02-05 Thread EBo
On Feb 5 2013 12:28 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: Am 05.02.2013 um 01:29 schrieb Chris Morley: Would your messaging scheme be just for HAL or would it replace NML ? Eventually HAL messaging will replace NML. Besides communicating individual signal values, it needs to be able to convey

Re: [Emc-developers] Future directions of LinuxCNC development, was custom EDM configuration questions - HAL + UI damage assessment

2013-02-05 Thread Michael Haberler
Chris raised an important question privately, and I asked if I could reply publically. Hi Michael I have been toying with the idea of converting gladeVCP to GTK3. but after reading your plans I wonder if building a new style that uses messaging would be better time spent. I am a little

Re: [Emc-developers] From Paolo

2013-02-05 Thread Schooner
For info I have built kernel 3.5.7-RTAI using Paulo's patch and it works perfectly The magma CVS is still for a 2.6.x kernel however and cannot be built against it yet Paulo says he will update as time allows, no time scale available regards

Re: [Emc-developers] Python Library for the BeagleBone PRUSS

2013-02-05 Thread Yishin Li
On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at wrote: Hi Gregory, Am 01.02.2013 um 22:45 schrieb Gregory Perry: Can LinuxCNC run as a simple userland process which talks to a hardware servo controller (such as the Mesa card you mention)? If one were to improve

[Emc-developers] BeagleBone question

2013-02-05 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; There has been a discussion of the BeagleBone's 'PRU' (I think I got the acronym right) in terms of using it as a stepper driver. That does sound promising, but no one has said so far, how many of these PRU's can be programmed on one BeagleBone. As it appears to have more than

Re: [Emc-developers] BeagleBone question

2013-02-05 Thread andy pugh
On 5 February 2013 16:52, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: $125 for the devel kit is a price I'm not doing if its $125 per stepper being controlled. But if it can do a PRU per GPIB pin, its going to be a lot more appetizing. Still more cash than a 5i25 by quite a margin. -- atp If you

Re: [Emc-developers] BeagleBone question

2013-02-05 Thread Gregory Perry
There are two (2) 200MHz RISC cores that constitute the PRUSS subsystem on the BeagleBone. Each can address eight (8) pins on the expansion headers, for a total of 16 pins. From: Gene Heskett [ghesk...@wdtv.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 9:52 AM

Re: [Emc-developers] BeagleBone question

2013-02-05 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/5/2013 8:59 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 5 February 2013 16:52, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: $125 for the devel kit is a price I'm not doing if its $125 per stepper being controlled. But if it can do a PRU per GPIB pin, its going to be

Re: [Emc-developers] BeagleBone question

2013-02-05 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've crawled through the TI documentation and made a table of the available pins (see the bottom of stepgen.p in the am335x branch). PRU Pins connected on the BeagleBone P8/P9 headers: === PRU0 has 8

Re: [Emc-developers] BeagleBone question

2013-02-05 Thread Eric Keller
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net wrote:Actually, the BeagleBone is $89. I'm not sure what developer kit Gene it referring to. There is a $200 kit that comes with a touchscreen/LCD, and a variety of $1000 kits available for more targeted

Re: [Emc-developers] BeagleBone question

2013-02-05 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/5/2013 9:47 AM, Eric Keller wrote: On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net wrote:Actually, the BeagleBone is $89. I'm not sure what developer kit Gene it referring to. There is a $200 kit that comes

Re: [Emc-developers] BeagleBone question

2013-02-05 Thread Gregory Perry
Most BeagleBone projects these days are using I2C for LCD interfacing, which would free up those pins. It looks like Elias Bakken has updated the PyPRUSS repo to support direct DDR streaming to and from a userland Python process and the PRU, so it's no longer just a simple interface for

Re: [Emc-developers] New PCI based system for LinuxCNC

2013-02-05 Thread Bence Kovács
Thanks a lot! 2013/2/4 Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com On 2/4/13 12:50 , Bence Kovács wrote: I see that my attachment is wrong, I attach a simple rar instead. I just pushed the new config files to the master branch. Except i removed the backup files for gm.var and for rs274ngc.var.

Re: [Emc-developers] [PRE-ANNOUNCE] Precise x86 Xenomai kernel PPA online for testing

2013-02-05 Thread John Morris
Updated kernel packages again. I'm asking folks to go back and try to break the vanilla kernel instead of the ubuntu-patched one. FOR BROKEN NETWORKING: Skunkworks'/Sam Sokolik's Realtek r8168 ethernet problem is well-known when driving it with the r8169 driver in the mainline kernel.

Re: [Emc-developers] From Paolo

2013-02-05 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 2/5/13 06:31 , Schooner wrote: For info I have built kernel 3.5.7-RTAI using Paulo's patch and it works perfectly Wow, great! Did you run linuxcnc with it, or just the RTAI test programs? -- Sebastian Kuzminsky

Re: [Emc-developers] [PRE-ANNOUNCE] Precise x86 Xenomai kernel PPA online for testing

2013-02-05 Thread John Morris
The PPA now has an 'smictrl' utility package for manipulating the SMI register. More info here: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?XenomaiKernelPackages#Latency_spikes_and_SMI Gilles Chanteperdrix, a Xenomai dev, warned me against enabling SMI workarounds for all kernels. There's no

Re: [Emc-developers] BeagleBone question

2013-02-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 06 February 2013 02:23:49 andy pugh did opine: Message additions Copyright Wednesday 06 February 2013 by Gene Heskett On 5 February 2013 16:52, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: $125 for the devel kit is a price I'm not doing if its $125 per stepper being controlled. But if

Re: [Emc-developers] BeagleBone question

2013-02-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 06 February 2013 02:26:59 Gregory Perry did opine: Message additions Copyright Wednesday 06 February 2013 by Gene Heskett There are two (2) 200MHz RISC cores that constitute the PRUSS subsystem on the BeagleBone. Each can address eight (8) pins on the expansion headers, for a