Re: [Emc-developers] Future directions of LinuxCNC development, and RTAPI restructuring tutorial

2013-02-06 Thread John Morris
On 02/06/2013 09:45 AM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > On 2/6/2013 8:15 AM, Eric Keller wrote: >> will it run a machine on a generic kernel? The closest would be >> an rt-preempt kernel, is that standard with any distributions ? I >> will admit to be confused, this discussion doesn't seem to talk

Re: [Emc-developers] Future directions of LinuxCNC development, and RTAPI restructuring tutorial

2013-02-06 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 06.02.2013 um 15:15 schrieb Eric Keller: > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:08 AM, andy pugh wrote: > >> On 6 February 2013 13:25, John Morris wrote: >>> Please ask questions about anything still >>> unclear, and I promise a short answer. >> >> This seems to be close to (or possibly already there)

Re: [Emc-developers] Future directions of LinuxCNC development, and RTAPI restructuring tutorial

2013-02-06 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 06.02.2013 um 15:08 schrieb andy pugh: > On 6 February 2013 13:25, John Morris wrote: >> Please ask questions about anything still >> unclear, and I promise a short answer. > > This seems to be close to (or possibly already there) a situation > where LinuxCNC can be distributed as applicatio

Re: [Emc-developers] Future directions of LinuxCNC development, and RTAPI restructuring tutorial

2013-02-06 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 2/6/2013 6:25 AM, John Morris wrote: > On 02/04/2013 08:43 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: >> <...>well in fact that's what John is doing for RTAPI, with the >> intent to arrive at a universal build that supports RTAI, Xenomai, >> RT_PREEMPT and sim 'automagically'; that's not part of the current

Re: [Emc-developers] Future directions of LinuxCNC development, and RTAPI restructuring tutorial

2013-02-06 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/6/2013 8:15 AM, Eric Keller wrote: > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:08 AM, andy pugh > wrote: > >> On 6 February 2013 13:25, John Morris wrote: >>> Please ask questions about anything still unclear, and I >>> promise a short answer. >> >> This seems

Re: [Emc-developers] Future directions of LinuxCNC development, and RTAPI restructuring tutorial

2013-02-06 Thread Eric Keller
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:08 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 6 February 2013 13:25, John Morris wrote: > > Please ask questions about anything still > > unclear, and I promise a short answer. > > This seems to be close to (or possibly already there) a situation > where LinuxCNC can be distributed as a

Re: [Emc-developers] Future directions of LinuxCNC development, and RTAPI restructuring tutorial

2013-02-06 Thread John Kasunich
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013, at 06:25 AM, John Morris wrote: > > Looking inside the old RT implementations, it is clear that one was > written first, and following implementations simply copied > _rtapi.c and _ulapi.c into new files and replaced the > RT system-specific code, a small portion of the ove

Re: [Emc-developers] Future directions of LinuxCNC development, and RTAPI restructuring tutorial

2013-02-06 Thread andy pugh
On 6 February 2013 13:25, John Morris wrote: > Please ask questions about anything still > unclear, and I promise a short answer. This seems to be close to (or possibly already there) a situation where LinuxCNC can be distributed as application-only to run on a generic kernel. However, if this

Re: [Emc-developers] Future directions of LinuxCNC development, and RTAPI restructuring tutorial

2013-02-06 Thread John Morris
On 02/04/2013 08:43 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: > Am 04.02.2013 um 14:11 schrieb EBo: >> On Feb 4 2013 4:18 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: >>> Am 04.02.2013 um 11:29 schrieb EBo: In the past, and I can read it between the lines now, that the invasiveness of the modifications will take so muc