On Saturday 23 November 2013 19:12:18 Sebastian Kuzminsky did opine: > On 11/23/2013 10:28 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Someone mentioned that a much newer rtai kernel had been compiled, and > > I am wondering if this kernel is now either PAE or full 64 bit aware? > > > > I would love to make one kernel run on all my machines, including this > > much bigger one I have in the house. > > > > If so, can I download it and test it on this machine? Where? (url) > > There is a new experiment RTAI kernel available, developed by Paolo, > Shabby, and memleak. I've been running it on some of my machines (it's > been working well), and it's running one of the buildslaves in the > buildbot. > > It's a 32-bit kernel with PAE support, suitable for running any X86 > processor with up to 4 GB of physical memory. > PAE should it not handle more than 4Gb. This 3.8.2 PAE on here sees all 8Gb of my memory. And is quite a bit more stable with this busy machine than the 2.6.32 rtai default.
> The kernel is available here: > > http://www.highlab.com/~seb/linuxcnc/rtai-for-3.4-prerelease/ > > I would love to have other folks test it and report how it works for > them. > > The install procedure is: > > * Make a fresh install of Ubuntu Precise 12.04, 32-bit. Any flavor > should work. > > * Download the files from the URL above. > > * Install (with "dpkg -i") linux-image and rtai-modules. The other debs > are optional. > > * We don't yet provide debs for Precise RTAI, so you'll have to build > linuxcnc from source. Both the 2.5 branch and master are known to work > with RTAI on Precise. I think I'll wait for test debs. Yelp at the list when they are ready to be fed to the lions den. Thanks Seb. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) A formal parsing algorithm should not always be used. -- D. Gries A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shape the Mobile Experience: Free Subscription Software experts and developers: Be at the forefront of tech innovation. Intel(R) Software Adrenaline delivers strategic insight and game-changing conversations that shape the rapidly evolving mobile landscape. Sign up now. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63431311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
