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

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