On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:36:55PM -0600, Jon Elson wrote:

> Sorry, but I have to....  While Halscope itself can only read internal 
> signals, anything
> you want can, in principle, be piped into the Hal environment.  What 
> you'd do is set up
> a base thread at some suitable rate, and run Halscope and the parport 
> module on that
> thread, with the parport data bus set to input.  

You betcha - finding inputs into HAL is truly no problem.  That's
what it's for!

> Then, you could have 
> Halscope bring
> in those signals for display.  Now, whether this is worth all the 
> trouble to set it up
> is a good question.  

A 13 input 4 output (kind of slow) logic analyzer for about $0 is
fairly appealing to someone who doesn't have a logic analyzer and
needs one...

Running only parport read and halscope_rt in a base thread might make
it possible to run it quite fast.  It would be interesting to try.  We
get 50kHz on any old hardware doing math for stepgens - with care (smp
with cpu isolated) and just reading could you get 250kHz? 500?  That's
starting to be very useful territory.

But as a general purpose scope, being able to see analogish stuff is
the primary mode of operation (for me?) and halscope and a parport
really wouldn't be any use at all.

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