I don't want bang for my buck. What I want is a control board I can drop into my haas, and doing it with x86 isn't very feasible. Dropping a embeddedarm ts4900 on a custom baseboard would be real slick, and it seems that it could surely compete with the 1990's era motorola running at 40mhz.
Anyway, that is just dreaming. Reality is that when you want to sell equipment, most will run far and fast from self retrofits. On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 2:51 AM, Nicklas Karlsson < nicklas.karlsso...@gmail.com> wrote: > Then it come to 3D graphics this is the strong point on ordinary computer. > Strong point of micro controller is: 3D graphics, hard drives or other > unknown will not disturb execution, they are very simple and run software > from the internal flash. > > My idea is to split linuxcnc in two and only run lower parts on ARM or > other micro controller, OS would probably be FreeRtos or none at all. Then > i look in developer manual there are diagram with NML in between and old > versions already have support for NML over tcp. > > > On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 17:32:11 -0500 > bari <bari00...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I spent the past few days looking over the current state of ARM SOC's > > for Linuxcnc and the open 3D driver situation hasn't changed much. > > > > i.mx6 uses a Vivante GPU and you can build RT kernels and build from > > open GPU driver source. The problem is NXP sells their 1-cores for ~$15 > > and their duals for ~$30 and the quads for ~$55. I get more bang for > > the buck with x86. I didn't find any vendors selling i.mx6 parts out the > > back door since they can now get better ARM SOC's in China for a > > fraction of the price from Allwinner and Rockchip. > > > > Allwinner uses mostly Mali and PowerVR for GPU's. Their SOC's tend to > > sell for under $10ea but the GPU and other hardware driver source is > > missing. > > > > Samsung Exynos are low cost but they only sell the good parts you'd want > > to use to a chosen few customers. > > > > Snapdragon and Tegra K1 are under $20 and have open 3D drivers but like > > Samsung only sell SOC's to a select few. > > > > Rockchip uses Mail and also sells SOC's under $10 ea but the like with > > Allwinner the drivers are closed. > > > > Broadcom has open 3D drivers for the RPi devices. But dealing with > > Broadcom makes me ill and they like Samsung only sell the good parts > > you'd want to a chosen few. > > > > Mediatek also uses Mali. > > > > Who and what did I miss? > > > > On 03/16/2016 07:17 AM, Erik Friesen wrote: > > > I have been doing some work with an i.mx6 of late, and wonder why the > quad > > > couldn't do linuxcnc? It seems there is some obscure reason I read > > > somewhere. > > > > > > Older Haas machines use the 68040? 40mhz clunker. > > > > > > This got me thinking, anyway http://nxgencnc.com/ > > > > > > But I ended up buying a 1996 haas. Going back to rs232 sort of hurts > after > > > networked linuxcnc. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > Transform Data into Opportunity. > > > Accelerate data analysis in your applications with > > > Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. > > > Click to learn more. > > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785231&iu=/4140 > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Emc-users mailing list > > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Transform Data into Opportunity. > > Accelerate data analysis in your applications with > > Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. > > Click to learn more. > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785351&iu=/4140 > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Transform Data into Opportunity. > Accelerate data analysis in your applications with > Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. > Click to learn more. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785351&iu=/4140 > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785351&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
