Scott Hasse wrote: > I presume many of you have seen the hype on the Raspberry Pi. Am I correct > in thinking that getting LinuxCNC to run on one of those would require an > arm-specific RTAI and drivers for the device-specific I/O? Has anyone else > given any thought to this potentially disruptive platform in the context of > LinuxCNC? > Yes, a couple years ago we heavily discussed porting to the Beagle Board, with the Cortex A8 CPU. The Beagle has 256 MB of RAM and can use an SD card for a "hard drive". It runs a very nice Linux system, and you can do development right on the Beagle. But, there is no RTAI port yet on it, even though I supplied a Beagle Board at my expense to the ARM maintainer of RTAI.
I have also developed a prototype parallel port converter for the Beagle, and tested it to work with my boards that normally work on the PC's EPP parallel port. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users