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

2013-02-09 Thread Schooner
Brief report on testing Johns Xenomai debs from his repo Installed into a Ubuntu 12.11 install Intel Quad core 2.3GHz (Q8200) This is not a workshop machine, it is my development and testing one in the house. It has never returned good figures with the 2.6.32-122 kernel Delighted to report that

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

2013-02-06 Thread sam sokolik
What repository do I need? when I do 'install the smictrl package' I get package not found.. thanks sam On 2/5/2013 7:31 PM, John Morris wrote: > The PPA now has an 'smictrl' utility package for manipulating the SMI > register. More info here: > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Xenoma

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 separa

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. Realtek's

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

2013-01-30 Thread sam sokolik
No problem! I do what i can:) I have tested it on a few amd systems so far. the worse one was a newer asus F1A75-M PRO R2.0 Motherboard with the amd A4 3400 apu. I topped out at exactly 100us... (which probably means something ;) The best (after disabling the onboard sound in the bios..

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

2013-01-29 Thread Michael Haberler
if you do this for the second or nth time, please make sure to modify the command line to (note --reinstall argument): sudo apt-get install --reinstall \ linux-image-3.5.7.2-xenomai-2.6.2.1-ubuntu \ linux-headers-3.5.7.2-xenomai-2.6.2.1-ubuntu unless numbers change, there's a chance the i

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

2013-01-29 Thread John Morris
This time, a new tack: atop the old vanilla 3.5.7 + 2.6.2.1 Xenomai, apply the vanilla 3.5.7 to stock ubuntu lts-3.5.0-23.35 diffs. Thanks to cradek for the idea. Note changed package name, to represent addition of ubuntu patches. sudo apt-get update # update kernel and headers (for buildin

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

2013-01-28 Thread Chris George
Perfect! It now works completely. Thanks for the hard work! Chris On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 7:39 PM, John Morris wrote: > Hi Chris, > > On 01/27/2013 12:17 PM, Chris George wrote: > > I've downloaded and installed your package, following the directions at > > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki

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

2013-01-27 Thread John Morris
New xenomai packages in the repo fix the dlopen-skins problem Chris George found and a timer problem Michael Haberler found. Both kernel and xenomai packages are at package release 3. # update repo metadata sudo apt-get update # update xenomai packages sudo apt-get install libxenomai-dev

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

2013-01-27 Thread Michael Haberler
John, Am 28.01.2013 um 01:39 schrieb John Morris: > Hi Chris, > > On 01/27/2013 12:17 PM, Chris George wrote: >> I've downloaded and installed your package, following the directions at >> http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?XenomaiKernel on a 64-bit Ubuntu >> 12.04 install. I then followed

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

2013-01-27 Thread John Morris
Hi Chris, On 01/27/2013 12:17 PM, Chris George wrote: > I've downloaded and installed your package, following the directions at > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?XenomaiKernel on a 64-bit Ubuntu > 12.04 install. I then followed the directions at > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?

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

2013-01-27 Thread Chris George
Hello, I've downloaded and installed your package, following the directions at http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?XenomaiKernel on a 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 install. I then followed the directions at http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?NewRTInstall to install the new branch supporting Xenom

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

2013-01-26 Thread John Morris
The Xenomai developers have helped fix numerous problems compiling Xenomai kernels using distro kernel package .configs and build tools. After WAYYY too much time and headache learning to package kernels for Debian/Ubuntu, I hope my alpha-quality Xenomai kernel package PPA is finally ready for bold