I have not tested Sam Wongs configuration, but you might run into trouble 
with Kernel 4.4 and the hal_pru right now. In case you encounter any 
problems I encourage you to use the 3.8 image + kernel for now.

Am Dienstag, 9. Mai 2017 14:38:22 UTC-5 schrieb Jonathan Cohen:
>
> There was a post over at the Thing-printer Google + pages that Sam Wong 
> is.   See his github: https://github.com/sam0737/machinekit-replicape
>
>
> On Monday, May 8, 2017 at 5:03:51 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just bought a replicape rev B3A and wanted to use it on machinekit and 
>> I ran to several problems.
>>
>> Does someone has an updated machinekit configuration script to support 
>> the revB? The DAC has been removed (easy fix) but the stepper drivers are 
>> different and the SPI that configure them has changed.
>>
>> I reprogrammed the eeprom to 00B3 to allow the device tree overlay to 
>> load the corresponding BB-BONE-REPLICAP-00B3.dtbo
>>
>> I tried the images at this link:
>>
>> http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#BBW.2FBBB_.28All_Revs.29_Machinekit
>>
>> *bone-debian-8.7-machinekit-armhf-2017-02-12-4gb.img.xz*
>> This image runs a kernel 3.8 Xenomai and doesn't recognize the Replicape 
>> board right away. 
>> The installed dtbo has been compiled for kernel 4.4 and GPIOs indexes are 
>> wrong. I replaced gpioN to gpioN+1 and recompiled.
>> But I just find out that the machinekit configuration script 
>> (ARM/beaglebone/replicape) is incompatible for this board.
>>
>> *bone-debian-8.7-machinekit-armhf-2017-04-23-4gb.img.xz*
>> This image runs a kernel 4.4 Xenomai and recognize the Replicape. 
>> I had to install beaglebone 4.4.65-bone-rt-r17 
>> because 4.4.62-ti-xenomai-r99 cause the machinekit loading (even 
>> simulations) to fail:
>> * /usr/libexec/linuxcnc/rtapi_app_posix: No such file or directory*
>> But the current configuration is for kernel 3.8. The script is looking in 
>> /sys/devices/bone_capemgr.* instead of /sys/devices/platform/bone_capemgr 
>> and I suspect that it's unable to load the PRU firmware.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>

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