If motenec is developing an ethercat board, there is no need for their original driver when they have no stock. People will use the ethercat master to connect to their new devices. Rod Webster
On 2026-09-08 19:04, andy pugh <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 8 Sept 2026 at 06:01, Luca Toniolo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > That leaves the direction question you didn't take a position on: > > I looked into the same question when I started my own (superseded) > task to update the HAL pins to all be 64-bit. I concluded that there > were likely to be very few of these boards out in the wild. > I attempted to contact the vendors, to ask if they would be able to > test, and only got a reply from Vital Systems, maker of the Motenc > card. [1] > > They have no cards remaining to test with, and are not aware of any > currently in use. > > I decided that I would update the drivers anyway. > > Is this discussion based on an expectation of withdrawing RTAI > support? My impression from scanning PRs has been that RTAPI support > has been expanding, with improved support for RTAI and also for > Xenomai. > > [1] Motenc are developing an EtherCAT board aimed at LinuxCNC. > > > > -- > atp > "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is > designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and > lunatics." > — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1912 > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
