On Sunday 03 February 2008 20:31, Jon Elson wrote:
> > I was given recently an old G4 Mac. is it posible to run EMC on a ppc32?
> Does it have a parallel port? If not, you are in pretty serious
> trouble.
The right question should be: Does it have any expansion slots that would
allow an IO card to be plugged in ?
> Not to mention the problems of getting an rtai compatible version of
> RT-Linux running on the ppc,
RTAI has patches for various 2.4.xx and 2.6.xx kernels - Not all aimed at the
G4 processor. Best place to ask is over on the RTAI mailing list as to which
PowerPC processors are currently supported (and pray that it isn't 2.4.xx).
> and then getting all of EMC to compile and run properly. It is SUPPOSED
> to, but.....
Take a look at the README - The "mission statement":
<quote>
2) Reduce complexity by eliminating support for platforms
other than Linux on x86, with either RTAI or RTLinux for
realtime. (DONE)
</quote>
Note: x86 only !
"or RTLinux" - nuff said.
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