Hi, I came in a bit late. My RTAI for LinuxCNC repository doesn't have any issues on the numerous hardware combos here. If it isn't working, then it's a hardware problem. The reason the LinuxCNC live cd probably works as-is is because of the magic combination of kernel version and hardware. Some kernel versions expose hardware problems moreso than others. I had a Biostar board once, and only one out of 10 kernels would work (kernel code at trampoline bit, crazy early.) It's not that the other 9 kernels were necessarily broken, they just didn't work with the motherboard. The same kind of thing can happen with IPIPE/RTAI.
Between kernel 3.4.55 (RTAI LinuxCNC live cd) and 3.16.52 (my old heavily tested stable tree) -- A lot of changes are made. To my memory, Andy was able to build the kernel and RTAI, and even load/unload modules without a problem. I believe it would only panic if trying to run the test suite or any real-time code. I trust LinuxCNC to start a real-time thread correctly, and I've tried the RTAI test suite myself on numerous combinations, so this points to hardware. The biggest problem to me is that LinuxCNC has a line splitting problem and has trouble detecting the running kernel (it cuts things off or something) I sent the patch to andypugh on IRC -- Can this get looked into? Alec _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
