The Machinekit people did this a few years ago. They used an FPGA development board that had an ARM core, and split the codebase into hal and non-hal parts. It looked to be nice work. Such a pity that their talent got diverted from the main LinuxCNC development group. They are down to only a few developers now I think.
-- Ralph ________________________________________ From: dave engvall [dengv...@charter.net] Sent: Friday, December 11, 2020 8:23 AM To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] I wonder... CAUTION: This email originated from outside the Walla Walla University email system. On 12/11/20 1:03 AM, andy pugh wrote: > https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhackaday.com%2F2020%2F12%2F10%2Fa-xilinx-zynq-linux-fpga-board-for-under-20-the-windfall-of-decommissioned-crypto-mining%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cralph.stirling%40wallawalla.edu%7C85a0040f49b84d6c05c808d89df12133%7Cd958f048e43142779c8debfb75e7aa64%7C0%7C0%7C637433006257557548%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=3AUR57%2B%2Fshm8VcxxYKG3ZeGPNK0KsPWfGK53%2FtxsT30%3D&reserved=0 > > So an ARM core and an FPGA on one board? > > I wonder if one could put LinuxCNC on the ARM and Hostmot2 on the FPGA? > Is the FPGA big enuf for HostMot2? ...and after one puts in the development and testing work is there an ongoing board so significant number of users can take advantage of the work? If the answers are yes then that would be a slick approach. Or does one buy a bunch of the boards now; while the supply lasts and gamble on the outcome? Dave _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.sourceforge.net%2Flists%2Flistinfo%2Femc-users&data=04%7C01%7Cralph.stirling%40wallawalla.edu%7C85a0040f49b84d6c05c808d89df12133%7Cd958f048e43142779c8debfb75e7aa64%7C0%7C0%7C637433006257557548%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=r70WG%2Bvr2XzqqPjqSgNhZa4hUmfMwwfwff4urOrQsV4%3D&reserved=0 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
