On Friday, 1 April 2022 06:27:32 EDT Rod Webster wrote: > Steffan, > Thanks for the background and update. > Sometimes I think I must be the only one playing with Sid and the > Debian packages. > It's now quite dated. It's a bit frustrating that you have to then > compile Linuxcnc to get the latest updates but the vast majority of > the dependencies are already installed so this is pretty easy if you > follow the docs. > > With the things I've done, I've never been able to run the release > version as it is missing stuff I need. > > If it were me, I would just take a snapshot of Linuxcnc master branch > for your tarball from time to time but I'm not in the dev team. > I guess that's basically what we users do when we compile master > branch. Its been very rare that I've experienced a major issue in the > code. (once or twice in 5 years) > Maybe Andy or someone can just create that pre1 branch so we can update > the repos. > I can echo that, I've been running master on my stuff for a decade. 2 gotcha's.
> When 2.9 is frozen and moved to a separate branch, it becomes pretty > easy to know what needs to be packaged. It will eventually become the > stable release version so updates will be very infrequent. I think we > need a bit more intensive care for the initial period. > > I really appreciate all that you've done to get us this far. I just > hope the project gets in the groove of timing their version updates > with the Debian releases. > I have to say that the 5.16 kernel is giving the most amazingly low > latency on USFF hardware I have had for years.. and proper UEFI > support is nice... Somewhere, if I haven't overwritten that card, I have a raspios bullseye with 5.16.2-28 installed. But the python is too new for LinuxCNC. All I can say is it Just Works. So latency-test hasn't been run on bullseye, but buster? 4.5 u-secs as long as I stay away from the firefox button. raspios buster running 4.19.71-rt24-v7l+ #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Thu Feb 6 07:09:18 EST 2020 armv7l is what I have used since I built it 2+ years ago, gives around 12 microseconds. Plenty fast enough to run machinery with. > Rod Webster > *1300 896 832* > +61 435 765 611 > Vehicle Modifications Network > www.vehiclemods.net.au Take care and stay well, Rod. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
