On Friday, 1 March 2019 04:42:41 UTC+11, Schooner wrote: > > ~ > Machinekit has dropped software step generation and its reliance upon rtai > kernels to get a low a latency as possible to make it work. > The recommended stepper generation methods are FPGA card or SOC, or the > BBB PRU > ~ >
ok, hold the presses. I understood that on the BBB, machinekit off loaded the signal generation to the extra cores set up specifically to run real-time i.o. (steps, encoder signals & whatever), but are you telling me that machinekit is no longer capable of running real-time on a general cpu with a real time kernel like the preempt-RT patched linux kernel? If so, would that make it pointless to try and run machinekit on anything other than a BBB (or another board with a similar set of silicon?). Are bit-banged GPIO ports an entirely lost cause? Or have I misread that sentence? -- 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.
