Re: [Emc-users] Maybe we don't need rtai anymore?

2017-07-04 Thread Jon Elson
On 07/04/2017 05:22 PM, sam sokolik wrote: Well - I have been playing with debian stretch and 4.9.0-3-rt kernel. I booted our matsuura (j1900 quad core) which with no tweeking has aprox 100us latency. (it has been running mesa ethernet cards with rt_preempt - no issues) Next I booted

Re: [Emc-users] Maybe we don't need rtai anymore?

2017-07-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 04 July 2017 18:22:27 sam sokolik wrote: > I have been playing with linuxcnc for a long time... It has come a > long way. > > Currently the RTAI folks seem to have issues developing. > > Now there is RT_Preempt. Couple cool things.. It has been migrated > to the linux foundation.

Re: [Emc-users] Reading config values with a realtime HAL module.

2017-07-04 Thread John Kasunich
Kind of a kludge, but the streamer/ halstreamer system could do what you are describing. The component that wants to use the data would export a clock pin and one or more input pins. Each edge of the clock pin delivers a value (or set of values) from an external file. In this application, it

Re: [Emc-users] Maybe we don't need rtai anymore?

2017-07-04 Thread Todd Zuercher
That looks pretty nice. My J1900 board is only around 10us running RTAI. Maybe I'll have to give it a try. But can a Preempt-rt kernel pull off acceptable latency scores (50-100us) on old hardware? Such as the old P4 box (with ISA slots) I have that runs great with Lucid (20us), but I can't

Re: [Emc-users] Maybe we don't need rtai anymore?

2017-07-04 Thread sam sokolik
This image got stripped http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/testing/user-04Jul2017-1172.png sam On 07/04/2017 05:22 PM, sam sokolik wrote: I have been playing with linuxcnc for a long time... It has come a long way. Currently the RTAI folks seem to have issues developing. Now there is

[Emc-users] Maybe we don't need rtai anymore?

2017-07-04 Thread sam sokolik
I have been playing with linuxcnc for a long time... It has come a long way. Currently the RTAI folks seem to have issues developing. Now there is RT_Preempt. Couple cool things.. It has been migrated to the linux foundation. This means a lot eyes on it. It is also pretty easy to build.

Re: [Emc-users] Soft limits with non-cartesian kinematics

2017-07-04 Thread Mark
On 07/03/2017 09:55 PM, Jon Elson wrote: Go easy on yourself! EMC was a fairly complicated piece of software when we took it over from NIST. It has grown quite a bit in complexity since then. Many deficiencies or limitations have been corrected by very sharp programming since then (HAL,