Chris Morley wrote: > I may have missed notification of this..but is the hal_m5i20 driver removed > for 2.3?
No, the hal_m5i20 driver has not been removed. A different driver with a similar name, hm2_5i20, has been removed because it has been supplanted by the hm2_pci driver. Users of the m5i20 driver are totally unaffected by this change, and all old m5i20 configs will continue working without any config changes. > Personally (I use the hal_m5i20 driver) I find the hostmot2 documents a little > sparse- for instance how are the servo and step driver pins distributed > across the three connectors. > It seems to me I will have to actually go load the driver in the computer on > my lathe before > I can figure out how to connect the HAL pins. Have I missed some docs? The hostmot2 docs do not contain pinout information because it does not exist. The hostmot2 driver does not have a particular pinout; the pinout comes from the firmware that the hostmot2 driver sends to the AnyIO board. Each firmware has different pinout, and there are many, many firmwares available. Each firmware *does* have its pinout described in a .PIN file, which is available in /usr/share/doc/emc2-firmware-mesa-$BOARD-hostmot2 (if you installed the firmware debian package), and it's in src/hal/drivers/mesa-hostmot2/firmware/$BOARD if you're compiling from the CVS source. None the less, this pinout thing is a frequently asked question, and I'm open to suggestions on how to describe the situation more clearly in a place people are likely to find it. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky Why do we even pretend to have nations these days? -- Bruce Sterling <http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2009/01/2009_will_be_a_year_of_panic.php> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
