Stefan, One area that could reduce dependency on Mesa hardware would be to bring Ethercat into the Debian repos. We mention it is being supported in our shiny new repository entry but it's not and it's difficult to install on newer distros. There is an ethercat driver for linuxcnc here: See: https://github.com/sittner/linuxcnc-ethercat
Previously, it was determined that this was not possible due to incorporate this to possible licensing restrictions with Beckhoff but from what I can see that license is for hardware devices only and the driver links to the Etherlabmaster open source software library See: https://etherlab.org/en/ethercat/ Perhaps with our greater understanding of licensing and the many licences we have uncovered in Linuxcnc, perhaps this decision could be reviewed. And you would also probably want to capture this component for managing CIA402 servo devices https://github.com/dbraun1981/hal-cia402 Recently one of the etherlab developers created an unofficial buildbot for Debian debs here so the project may be fully complete if they came on board https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:bone11111:branches:science:EtherLab Currently supporting Ethercat devices is far more difficult than it should be. This would be an awesome and worthy addition to the project if it were possible. Rod Webster *1300 896 832* +61 435 765 611 Vehicle Modifications Network www.vehiclemods.net.au On Mon, 28 Feb 2022 at 10:38, Steffen Möller <steffen_moel...@gmx.de> wrote: > I have asked this myself. Why did I want this to happen - and I think > the answer is two-fold: > > a) community-forming - not necessarily I am after contributors to > LinuxCNC but I see the extra stimulus to package other CNC-related > software for Debian from which then LinuxCNC benefits > > b) less stress to "keep everything together". There are several LiveCDs > that likely would just go and add LinuxCNC, such that there may not be > an ultimate need for LinuxCNC to maintain its own. LinuxCNC in my > understanding is a bit of a distribution in itself: It has amalgamated > several projects (ladder comes to mind) that have been developed > independently before. If this all works out nicely then LinuxCNC could > consider to present some of its internals as independent packages. > > Something else I see is that LinuxCNC has the Mesa cards as closely tied > hardware. There could be more. I could imagine that have LinuxCNC > integrated with Debian (now) and Ubuntu (soon) will ease the internal > decision making for hardware companies that today only address Mach3 et > al.. > > We'll see :) > > Best, > Steffen > > On 28.02.22 01:01, Sam Sokolik wrote: > > This is amazing... This will make Linuxcnc even easier to access.. > Game > > changer? Maybe! > > > > sam > > > > On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 1:32 PM Nicklas SB Karlsson <n...@nksb.eu> wrote: > > > >> Metoo use debian. Great! > >> > >> On Sun, 27 Feb 2022 11:36:37 -0700 > >> Sebastian Kuzminsky <s...@highlab.com> wrote: > >> > >>> On 2/27/22 04:00, Debian FTP Masters wrote: > >>> > Accepted: > >>> > > >>>> Format: 1.8 > >>>> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2022 18:40:12 +0100 > >>>> Source: linuxcnc > >>>> Binary: linuxcnc-doc-en linuxcnc-doc-es linuxcnc-doc-fr > >> linuxcnc-doc-zh-cn linuxcnc-uspace linuxcnc-uspace-dbgsym > >> linuxcnc-uspace-dev > >>>> Architecture: source all amd64 > >>>> Version: 2.9.0~pre0+git20220224.3ba0951743-1 > >>>> Distribution: unstable > >>> Yayyy! Thank you Steffen, and Petter and everyone who's been working > on > >>> getting LinuxCNC into Debian! > >>> > >>> If you're running sid/unstable you can now just `apt-get install > >>> linuxcnc-uspace`, right from the debian.org package archive: > >>> > >>> <https://packages.debian.org/linuxcnc-uspace> > >>> > >>> > >>> It'll hopefully make it into bookworm/testing in a couple of days. > >>> We'll work on bullseye after that. :-) > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Sebastian Kuzminsky > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Emc-developers mailing list > >>> Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Emc-developers mailing list > >> Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-developers mailing list > > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
