Re: [Emc-users] Caution for users using linuxcnc master and Mesa Stepgen

2014-04-08 Thread Michael Haberler
just tried, result: http://static.mah.priv.at/public/hm2log.txt I guess I'll wait until PCW recovers from the snake bite ;) - Michael Am 08.04.2014 um 07:53 schrieb Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at: Andy, Am 08.04.2014 um 01:46 schrieb andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: I have pushed

Re: [Emc-users] Caution for users using linuxcnc master and Mesa Stepgen

2014-04-08 Thread andy pugh
On 8 April 2014 06:53, Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at wrote: if I add 'stepgen_width=0' to the above line, the TableXPins (eg 026..029 above) vanish and become IOPorts? No, if you do that then all the stepgen pins will disappear. The fix is meant to be transparent, existing configs

Re: [Emc-users] Caution for users using linuxcnc master and Mesa Stepgen

2014-04-08 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 08.04.2014 um 10:30 schrieb andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: On 8 April 2014 06:53, Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at wrote: if I add 'stepgen_width=0' to the above line, the TableXPins (eg 026..029 above) vanish and become IOPorts? No, if you do that then all the stepgen pins will

Re: [Emc-users] Caution for users using linuxcnc master and Mesa Stepgen

2014-04-08 Thread andy pugh
On 8 April 2014 14:34, Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at wrote: I just cherry-picked your patch http://goo.gl/lMqYDA since onto machinekit: Apr 8 15:30:15 cnc msgd: 0: hal_lib:14229:rt hm2: Firmware contains unknown function (gtag-255) Apr 8 15:30:15 cnc msgd: 0: hal_lib:14229:rt

Re: [Emc-users] Caution for users using linuxcnc master and Mesa Stepgen

2014-04-07 Thread andy pugh
I have pushed what I believe to be a fix for this issue to the 2.6 branch. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto -- Put Bad Developers to Shame Dominate Development with Jenkins

Re: [Emc-users] Caution for users using linuxcnc master and Mesa Stepgen

2014-04-07 Thread Michael Haberler
Andy, Am 08.04.2014 um 01:46 schrieb andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: I have pushed what I believe to be a fix for this issue to the 2.6 branch. thanks for this patch! just to make sure I understand this right, since I have this issue: my config line used to read: loadrt hm2_pci

Re: [Emc-users] Caution for users using linuxcnc master and Mesa Stepgen

2014-04-06 Thread Peter C. Wallace
Andy Pugh has added support for the table mode in the Mesa hardware stepgen to linuxcnc master. This allows user programmable output pin sequences up to 8 pins wide and 16 states deep. Firmware support for this feature has been available for many years but the driver did not support table mode

Re: [Emc-users] Caution for users using linuxcnc master and Mesa Stepgen

2014-04-06 Thread Peter C. Wallace
Sorry the affected bit file names are: MAUROPON.bit RSST12_8.bit ST12.bit SVST2_8.bit SVST4_4.bit SVST4_4NA.bit SVST4_6.bit SVST4_6NA.bit SVST4_8.bit SVST8_3P.vhd SVST8_4.bit SVST8_4P.bit SVST8_8.bit Peter Wallace Mesa Electronics

Re: [Emc-users] Caution for users using linuxcnc master and Mesa Stepgen

2014-04-06 Thread andy pugh
On 6 April 2014 21:43, Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com wrote: 1. You are using any of the above bitfiles 2. You are using the hardware stepgen 3. You are using linuxcnc master There may be a conflict, and I suggest not using master until the bitfiles are updated. I plan to update all

Re: [Emc-users] Caution for users using linuxcnc master and Mesa Stepgen

2014-04-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 06 April 2014 19:08:09 Peter C. Wallace did opine: Andy Pugh has added support for the table mode in the Mesa hardware stepgen to linuxcnc master. This allows user programmable output pin sequences up to 8 pins wide and 16 states deep. Firmware support for this feature has been

Re: [Emc-users] Caution for users using linuxcnc master and Mesa Stepgen

2014-04-06 Thread andy pugh
On 7 April 2014 00:15, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Now I am truly puzzled Peter. Since we have very capable step/dir drivers available at quite reasonable prices, I think there needs to be a justification paper for these modes which would appear be most profligate in the use of I/O