On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 7:43 AM PDT Paul Lacatus <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 08.08.2013 03:14, GP Orcullo wrote:
>> On 7 Aug 2013, at 18:56, Andy Pugh <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> My MF70 is controlled by RPi running LCNC.
>> Is that using the Mungkie image?
>>
>> I was not getting a continuous step stream with that.
>>
>> (Sorry to derail the thread, but I have an RPi to parport breakout board 
>> designed (and 20 boards, some populated). I gave some away at the Developer 
>> fest, but have plenty left and can get more (I thing they cost $1 each to 
>> have made))
>>
>> Nope, I'm using an external hardware for step generation.
>>
>>
>>
>Very interesting your solution also.  I am quite new to linux CNC and 
>the structure of the HAL system is not quite clear for me right now  .  
>I understand that the PIC32 is used to generate the step and direction 
>signals and receives the order by SPI interface.  Exactly what is 
>receviving the PIC32 by SPI interface?
>
>Paul

Think of PIC32 as the PRU of RPi. hal_pru is the driver/module for the stepgen 
code that runs on the PRU; for PIC32 the equivalent driver is hal_picnc.

Note that the code is not yet in the repo as it is still WIP.

Cheers!


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