Jon, I did those interface boards pretty quick (milled them using EMC), so if something doesn't act right, feel free to suspect the hardware. They weren't tested.
But, just to be clear, it's all Matt's fault. Somehow. --Dale >Matt Shaver wrote: >> Taking this info into account, I'll get this board shipped to you >> tomorrow! Dale made a nice level translator circuit to go from the >> beagle's 3.3v i/o port to a 5v parallel port pinout, which I'll send >> with the board. >Oh, WOW! That is already further along than I expected. Oh, the beagle >is almost entirely >1.8 V signalling, especially directly connecting to the expansion >connector, at least according to my reading. >> Also, I got an 8g sd card I'll send too that has debian >> on it and a running EMC, albeit with no real time kernel. >OK, which kernel is that? It seems ARM support on rtai is WAY behind >the rest of the develoment, >Torsten was saying he'd prefer a 2.6.20 kernel. I doubt that there EVER >was a 2.6.20 kernel that will >run on the beagle board. But since he will have to recompile the kernel >anyway, I guess he can use that kernel >if he really HAS to (ugh). > >I gather that if I'm not interested in having X running on the Beagle, >it is a lot less important on exactly which >kernel it is. > >Well, I am very much anticipating playing with this! It will be >interesting >to see how neat a job I can do of creating a parallel port wrapper that >simulates the PC parallel port. > > >Jon > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day >trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on >what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with >Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july >_______________________________________________ >Emc-developers mailing list >Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
