Re: [Emc-developers] Support for newer Ubuntu or Debian releases

2016-10-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 29 October 2016 14:20:34 Jon Elson wrote: > On 10/28/2016 09:41 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > > This is why I keep popping up with asking about > > externally-triggered RT threads, which should relieve all > > the Pico Systems boards from the RT latency issue. I > > don't mind doing some wor

Re: [Emc-developers] --> RTAPI thread

2016-10-29 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
On Sat, 29 Oct 2016 13:20:34 -0500 Jon Elson wrote: > On 10/28/2016 09:41 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > > This is why I keep popping up with asking about > > externally-triggered RT threads, which should relieve all > > the Pico Systems boards from the RT latency issue. I > > don't mind doing some w

Re: [Emc-developers] Support for newer Ubuntu or Debian releases

2016-10-29 Thread Jon Elson
On 10/28/2016 09:41 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > This is why I keep popping up with asking about > externally-triggered RT threads, which should relieve all > the Pico Systems boards from the RT latency issue. I > don't mind doing some work on this, especially testing and > verification, but I'm not

Re: [Emc-developers] New to developers list --> gschem symbols <-- Back annotation

2016-10-29 Thread Jon Elson
On 10/29/2016 01:41 AM, Nicklas Karlsson wrote: >> Worse. My ppmc driver exports pins based on what devices it >> detects on the parallel port bus. (I think the Mesa drivers >> do something similar.) > How do you write configuration for these changing ports today? > ... >

Re: [Emc-developers] New to developers list --> gschem symbols <-- Back annotation

2016-10-29 Thread andy pugh
On 29 October 2016 at 11:23, EBo wrote: > Is there already a how-to on doing all this? http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/hal/tutorial.html -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics." — Geo

Re: [Emc-developers] New to developers list --> gschem symbols <-- Back annotation

2016-10-29 Thread EBo
On Oct 29 2016 4:03 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 28 October 2016 at 18:36, Nicklas Karlsson > wrote: >> Are there a method to probe the hardware without a *.hal file? > > Yes, the software can send individual HAL commands. Is there already a how-to on doing all this? ---

Re: [Emc-developers] New to developers list --> gschem symbols <-- Back annotation

2016-10-29 Thread andy pugh
On 28 October 2016 at 18:36, Nicklas Karlsson wrote: > Are there a method to probe the hardware without a *.hal file? Yes, the software can send individual HAL commands. -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses,

Re: [Emc-developers] New to developers list --> gschem symbols <-- Back annotation

2016-10-29 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
For hostmot2 driver: halcmd loadrt hostmot2 halcmd loadrt hm2_eth board_ip="192.168.1.10" list pin list sig list param load and report the pin. I think with the correct parameters it will report all needed parameters to select or possible generate correct symbol for gschem back annotation or