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 >> > -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: https://github.com/machinekit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Machinekit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
