On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:45:57PM +0100, Alex Monti wrote: > About me: I'm a student of electronic engineering new to the > EtherCat/Etherlab world and not a long time user of RTAI. I have decent > Linux experience however. > I'm trying to create a program in C language that extracts information from > ENI file and use them to configure your IgH EtherCAT Master for Linux. > In your opinion is it possible?
Basically, it is, but it will be difficult. The EtherLab master uses a different approach for the configuration. The ENI file contains explicit commands to send a slave between two application-layer states, so the master can be really stupid. The EtherLab master calculates most of the commands by itself, so you would have to extract the information from the ENI and "guess" the appropriate function calls for the master API. It is possible indeed, but you won't be able to map any command from the ENI file to the master API. A better approach would be to implement native ENI support for the master. But why do you want to use an ENI file anyway? -- Best regards, Florian Pose http://etherlab.org _______________________________________________ etherlab-users mailing list etherlab-users@etherlab.org http://lists.etherlab.org/mailman/listinfo/etherlab-users
