Re: [Emc-developers] ubc: inconsistent behavior in posix flavor vs others

2014-03-05 Thread John Morris
On 03/05/2014 10:44 AM, Kenneth Lerman wrote: > On 3/3/2014 12:41 PM, John Kasunich wrote: >> >> I agree 110% with John. "sudo make setuid" shouldn't be considered >> an obstacle. > sudo make setcap... is probably more appropriate. These days, we can set > individual capabilities rather than ha

Re: [Emc-developers] Circular blend arc RC1 pushed

2014-03-05 Thread Robert Ellenberg
Sam, another thought: Do you see this on any particular kind of intersection (line-line, arc-line, etc.)? On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:42 PM, sam sokolik wrote: > Ok - I finally got a chance to test some more real hardware. This is a > bastard router that has 3 different steppers/drive (it was a co

Re: [Emc-developers] Circular blend arc RC1 pushed

2014-03-05 Thread Dave Cole
>>I found one issue. A cutting profile containing more than 1 axis will only go as fast as the slowest axis. This machine has 3 different axis velocities << I thought I saw a similar interaction with the standard planner. We were setting up a system and the X axis was much faster than the Y axis

Re: [Emc-developers] ubc: inconsistent behavior in posix flavor vs others

2014-03-05 Thread John Kasunich
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014, at 02:29 PM, Michael Haberler wrote: > > I have read up on the data flow in stepgen.c and I found the following for > normal (i.e. not disabled, and setup disregarded): > > make_pulses reads: > stepgen->accum > stepgen->target_addval > stepgen->deltalim

Re: [Emc-developers] Circular blend arc RC1 pushed

2014-03-05 Thread Robert Ellenberg
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:42 PM, sam sokolik wrote: > Ok - I finally got a chance to test some more real hardware. This is a > bastard router that has 3 different steppers/drive (it was a converted > step/repeat machine.) I built robs latest (RC3) from the linuxcnc git > and ran some of the test

Re: [Emc-developers] Circular blend arc RC1 pushed

2014-03-05 Thread Robert Ellenberg
Thanks to Seb's help, circular-blend-arc-rc3 is now available as a debian package in the scratch/rt and scratch/sim folders. The suffix is RC3 instead of RC1 because I rebased a few times until we found a master commit that passed all the tests. Since I made a bit of a mess pushing these branches,

Re: [Emc-developers] Circular blend arc RC1 pushed

2014-03-05 Thread sam sokolik
Ok - I finally got a chance to test some more real hardware. This is a bastard router that has 3 different steppers/drive (it was a converted step/repeat machine.) I built robs latest (RC3) from the linuxcnc git and ran some of the test programs. some good news one bad. Good news. The motio

Re: [Emc-developers] Atomic

2014-03-05 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 3/5/14 11:36 , Michael Haberler wrote: > btw it occurred to me since atomic update and fetch is a given for 64bit on > x86/amd64 and arm, one could add HAL_S64 and HAL_U64 as a data type for > pins+signals > > not that I see an immediate use case hal_float_t is double, which is 64 bit wide.

Re: [Emc-developers] Atomic

2014-03-05 Thread Michael Haberler
btw it occurred to me since atomic update and fetch is a given for 64bit on x86/amd64 and arm, one could add HAL_S64 and HAL_U64 as a data type for pins+signals not that I see an immediate use case - Michael -- Subversi

Re: [Emc-developers] Atomic

2014-03-05 Thread Kenneth Lerman
On 3/4/2014 11:55 AM, Jon Elson wrote: > On 03/04/2014 06:59 AM, andy pugh wrote: >> On 4 March 2014 12:52, Stuart Stevenson wrote: >> >>> Gentlemen, >>> It would help me understand and follow some of the current threads if I >>> knew the definition of atomic as used in this context. >> It ref

Re: [Emc-developers] ubc: inconsistent behavior in posix flavor vs others

2014-03-05 Thread Kenneth Lerman
On 3/3/2014 12:41 PM, John Kasunich wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2014, at 12:26 PM, John Morris wrote: >> If it were possible to set SCHED_FIFO with the fast thread prio 0 (no >> special privs needed), and other thread prio relatively lower, it might >> achieve the same effect. This could be implemen

Re: [Emc-developers] Atomic

2014-03-05 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 3/4/2014 8:42 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > On 03/04/2014 11:48 AM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: >> On 3/4/2014 10:55 AM, Jon Elson wrote: >>> Another way this can be dealt with is to have double buffers >>> shared between the two tasks, the "master" task swaps out a >>> pointer >>> to the most recent b