Hi Jason, no this wasn't something I've done. I just saw some related messages on the RTAI mailing list. (the message I pasted is from Paolo Mantegazza).
Regards, Alex ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "EMC developers" <emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 12:19 PM Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] [Emc-users] Running on a G4 MAc (new world) > Ok i will move over to the Dev list. > Alex, was this a "roll you own" linux distro that you were using? What i > have is a G4 (gray case) UP with 1G ram so it should do ok. I seem to be > seeing a lot about slow compiling, is it realy bad or just takes time? I > could setup a cross compiler under my gentoo box, but then libs will be > the issue. > > Looking forward to work on this. > > Jason > > On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 10:33 +0200, Alex Joni wrote: >> Hi Jason, >> >> just some snippets from the RTAI mailing list: >> (Thread called "[Rtai] rtai on a ppc405 (Xilinx XUP Boad)" from the 1st >> February 2008) >> >> >> "> - Is it possible to use a newer Kernel than 2.6.14, are there any more >> patches? >> > >> >> At the moment no. Newer patches requires adapting to Linux powerpc >> framework, not ppc. With the hardware I have, a small 9 year old G3 >> portable Mac, the only witness of externally gifted hardware support in >> all of the RTAI history, compiling and testing the kernel and RTAI >> directly on it is a bit of pain. I know I should install a cross >> development environment to speed things up, but at the moment I've >> little time and space to make it ready to use. The only witnesses I know >> of the use of the latest RTAI for PPC are on G3 and G4 UP CPUs, 7xxx >> series I think. Notice that it is just for UP at the moment. There is an >> effort underway on a Mac G5 but is still at the verification stage using >> 3.6, the ppc environment and 2.6.14. It should end on powerpc >> environment and thus more recent paches but I've no scheduling authority >> on it. On my side I've a plan to use ppc/powerpc on a new project but >> I'll talk of it only if I'll be able to make it take off. >> >> Paolo" >> >> Reading that thread, it seems you should start by using 2.6.14 and RTAI >> 3.6. >> Let us know how things go along. >> Maybe we should move this thread over to emc-developers >> >> Good luck & best regards, >> Alex ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
