Re: [Emc-developers] Non-X GUI Options

2014-01-05 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 01/05/2014 06:06 PM, EBo wrote: No, for a real answer take a look at NanoX/Microwindows (I have not used it, only read about it). Well, maybe. About 3 years ago, with a lot more futzing around than I thought the project deserved, I managed to get Nano-X [1] working on a primitive

Re: [Emc-developers] Can't compile joints_axes4

2013-12-04 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 12/4/2013 3:03 PM, Marius Alksnys wrote: On 12/04/2013 09:27 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: the output of the commands in part 2.4 of the document i linked you: cd debian ./configure -a (if installing simulator use ./configure sim instead) cd .. dpkg-checkbuilddeps That assumes you're

Re: [Emc-developers] Can't compile joints_axes4

2013-12-04 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 12/4/2013 3:27 PM, Marius Alksnys wrote: I tried it this way (from the root of the git checkout): git checkout master git pull cd src ./autogen.sh ./configure --enable-run-in-place Same results On 12/04/2013 09:57 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: Can you configure and make on the master

Re: [Emc-developers] Can't compile joints_axes4

2013-12-04 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 12/4/2013 4:10 PM, Marius Alksnys wrote: dpkg-architecture DEB_BUILD_ARCH=i386 DEB_BUILD_ARCH_OS=linux DEB_BUILD_ARCH_CPU=i386 DEB_BUILD_ARCH_BITS=32 DEB_BUILD_ARCH_ENDIAN=little DEB_BUILD_GNU_CPU=i486 DEB_BUILD_GNU_SYSTEM=linux-gnu DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE=i486-linux-gnu DEB_HOST_ARCH=i386

Re: [Emc-developers] Self-Balancing Robot

2013-12-02 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 11/30/2013 10:00 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: Am 30.11.2013 um 15:14 schrieb Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net: On 11/30/2013 7:28 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: Charles, Am 30.11.2013 um 13:12 schrieb Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net: I'm not sure the Balanduino

[Emc-developers] New test...

2013-11-06 Thread Kent A. Reed
that the from address is one that it recognizes. Since my default is a different address, I often have things bounce. Could it be something like that? On Nov 6 2013 9:35 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: Sorry for the noise, but I just noticed that two messages I sent regarding Gene's kvetch about

Re: [Emc-developers] beaglebone status [was: UB integration and 2.6 status]

2013-11-04 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 11/4/2013 10:30 AM, EBo wrote: What hard real-time ARM kernels have been found suitable for LinuxCNC? Sorry to hear about RT-PREEMPT ARM support... Hard real-time, like beauty, is in the mind of the beholder. Michael named the three real-time kernels the unified-build-candidate-3 branch

Re: [Emc-developers] UB integration and 2.6 status

2013-11-01 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 10/31/2013 5:21 PM, Michael Haberler wrote: Am 31.10.2013 um 21:58 schrieb Kent Reed kentallanr...@gmail.com: Point of information: Issue #2---review and merge new RTOS branch Which branch on the repository is the new RTOS branch? the reference tree and bug tracker is at https

Re: [Emc-developers] On building LinuxCNC docs on recent O/Ses

2013-10-28 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 10/28/2013 8:40 AM, Jeff Epler wrote: On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 03:21:15PM -0500, Jeff Epler wrote: It looks like the :ascii-ids: clears up most of the stuff that the nbsp-killing didn't. There were a few more wrinkles, but now buildbot is chewing on the branch jepler-jessie-doc-build to see

[Emc-developers] On building LinuxCNC docs on recent O/Ses

2013-10-26 Thread Kent A. Reed
Gentle persons: Roughly two months ago, there was a brief spat of email traffic about LinuxCNC documentation not building on stable Debian. Since the horrific events in my life earlier this year I've lost my zeal for editing LinuxCNC documentation. On the other hand, I have been building

Re: [Emc-developers] PoseMath pass-by-value question

2013-10-24 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 10/24/2013 1:23 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: Hi All, Many posemath functions (like pmCartCartDot, for example) pass compound data types like PmCartesion and PmPose by value. Is there a specific reason for this design choice? Robert: The posemath library predates LinuxCNC by a number of

Re: [Emc-developers] PoseMath pass-by-value question

2013-10-24 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 10/24/2013 3:19 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: That's a good point about the out-of-tree users, though I wonder if it would be better for them to use a standalone libnml version. If there's a lot of pushback from other users, I can make the few call-by-reference changes I need under a

Re: [Emc-developers] Behavior under heavy CPU load - Revisited

2013-08-11 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 8/11/2013 9:46 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: Am 11.08.2013 um 15:19 schrieb Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net: On 8/5/2013 11:29 AM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: How does LinuxCNC behave under heavy CPU load? ... I am revisiting this issue after experimenting with some

Re: [Emc-developers] installing xenomai

2013-07-31 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 7/30/2013 5:38 PM, Michael Haberler wrote: Am 30.07.2013 um 21:34 schrieb Tom Easterday tom-...@bgp.nu: I did the install and rebooted (no RealTek ethernet) but it comes up with a login prompt, no GUI. I put the output of dmesg here: http://pastebin.com/GzQHt4L5 Is there something

Re: [Emc-developers] devicejs.org | DeviceJS is Javascript for the physical world

2013-07-21 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 7/21/2013 2:32 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: interesting idea : http://devicejs.org/ The phrase smoke and mirrors came to mind as I looked at this site, but the information on their WigWag Kickstarter site was actually encouraging. Having lived through successive generations of

Re: [Emc-developers] 'top' and realtime systems?

2013-07-16 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 7/16/2013 4:56 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: Kent - some improvements for RT-PREEMPT: Am 14.07.2013 um 15:19 schrieb Kent A. Reed kentallanr...@gmail.com: Gentle persons: Do Xenomai and RT-preempt have the same effect as RTAI does on the usual Linux instrumentation? top for example

Re: [Emc-developers] discuss: Why do we have MAN, MDI and AUTO modes.

2013-07-15 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 7/15/2013 10:28 AM, John Kasunich wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2013, at 03:31 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: Am 15.07.2013 um 05:57 schrieb Chris Morley chrisinnana...@hotmail.com: What if we got rid of 'modes' and relied on interpreter signals to decide if controls work or not. eg. if the

[Emc-developers] 'top' and realtime systems?

2013-07-14 Thread Kent A. Reed
Gentle persons: Do Xenomai and RT-preempt have the same effect as RTAI does on the usual Linux instrumentation? top for example is blind to the RTAI threads. I know Xenomai places useful data in /proc/xenomai/stat. Do top and ps ignore it? Are there customized versions of these commands which

Re: [Emc-developers] Licensing Questionaire

2013-06-09 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 6/9/2013 10:13 AM, Kenneth Lerman wrote: 4 -- Do you come to it as a free and excellent body of code available for your own use or do you see it as part of what provides their livelihood? 5 -- Should it be protected by strong licensing from those who might attempt to use it without

Re: [Emc-developers] Rockhopper revisited

2013-06-07 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 6/7/2013 4:09 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 07 June 2013 02:10:00 Kent Reed did opine: On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Greetings Guys; Someone mentioned that rockhopper can make .pdf s somehow, and those of coarse can be scaled. Since I now own

[Emc-developers] divorcing the HAL graph visualizer from the web server, was Re: Rockhopper revisited

2013-06-07 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 6/7/2013 3:37 PM, Peter Jensen wrote: As mentioned, Rockhopper also has a HAL graph visualizer. It would be simple enough to divorce this from the web server, but right now I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader;-) Since Peter's Python coding style is so much better than

Re: [Emc-developers] divorcing the HAL graph visualizer from the web server, was Re: Rockhopper revisited

2013-06-07 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 6/7/2013 5:38 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: Obviously one doesn't need to use fully qualified file and directory names but I wanted to be error on the side of being pedantic rather than cryptic. Obviously, all this could be turned into a self contained, do-all script, placed on the desktop

Re: [Emc-developers] Rockhopper revisited

2013-06-07 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 6/7/2013 8:00 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: I have used it several times, and I love the concept. My main problem is that the .svg output, when viewed on a firefox screen has a non adjustable scale that is wy too small to be readable. Actually, SVG has no intrinsic scale. Scalable Vector

Re: [Emc-developers] contributing to LinuxCNC documentation

2013-06-06 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 6/5/2013 6:50 AM, John Thornton wrote: Well the 3rd possibility and the preferred way (short of you getting commit rights) so you get proper credit/blame is for you to prepare a git patch and e-mail it to me. And that works too, at least in the short term. I think John Morris' musing

[Emc-developers] exploring the LinuxCNC 'burden' on my BeagleBone Black

2013-06-06 Thread Kent A. Reed
Gentle persons: My interest has been tweaked by several remarks made about performance on the BeagleBone Black. I've started a page (https://sites.google.com/site/manisbutareed/beaglebone-black-linuxcnc) and to kick it off posted some gross characterizations of the burden imposed by various

Re: [Emc-developers] exploring the LinuxCNC 'burden' on my BeagleBone Black

2013-06-06 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 6/6/2013 3:24 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: On 6/6/13 13:19 , Kent A. Reed wrote: My interest has been tweaked by several remarks made about performance on the BeagleBone Black. I've started a page (https://sites.google.com/site/manisbutareed/beaglebone-black-linuxcnc) and to kick it off

Re: [Emc-developers] exploring the LinuxCNC 'burden' on my BeagleBone Black

2013-06-06 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 6/6/2013 5:15 PM, Michael Haberler wrote: very interesting writeup! very much in line with my observations I have so far run with a remote X display directly (i.e. without ssh tunneling) by setting DISPLAY on the bb and enabling connect on the X server, so no sshd overhead but more

[Emc-developers] contributing to LinuxCNC documentation

2013-06-04 Thread Kent A. Reed
Ok, so Michael has thrown down the gauntlet: Now please stop the damn 'thank you' thing, and contribute something. Circumstances prevent me from contributing much in the way of code but y'all know I have a passion for decent documentation. I have made a number of contributions to the Wiki and

Re: [Emc-developers] Tests

2013-05-31 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 5/31/2013 5:49 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 31 May 2013 01:52, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: So I disabled it. Is there any way to see what the problem was? Now that it isn't 2am: Can anyone else with a recent pull of master re-enable that test and see if it passes for them? I am a

Re: [Emc-developers] Tests

2013-05-31 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 5/31/2013 9:29 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 31 May 2013 13:38, Kent A. Reed kentallanr...@gmail.com wrote: tests/mux failed with the usual test run exited with 1. Maybe I'll get a little time later to see what's happening internally. if you look in the tests/mux directory there should

Re: [Emc-developers] Tests

2013-05-31 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 5/31/2013 11:29 AM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: On 5/31/13 09:02 , andy pugh wrote: On 31 May 2013 15:54, Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com wrote: If you follow the link you'll see a list of the steps the builder did, Actually, what I see in my lunch break is: Based on your

Re: [Emc-developers] releases branching

2013-05-24 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 5/24/2013 12:46 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: I've certainly been assuming that we'll stay with Ubuntu, and that we'll target basically what we're currently building on the buildbot: Hardy sim rtai, Lucid sim rtai, Precise sim, plus any new rtos options we merge. Since Lucid Desktop,

Re: [Emc-developers] manpages was: Hitatchi WJ200 Inverter Driver (using comp)

2013-05-23 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 5/20/2013 10:20 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: On 05/20/2013 07:50 PM, Curtis Dutton wrote: Ok I have the driver pretty much completed and it has been working well for a week now. It can now take command line arguments to control the modbus serial connection parameters. Great! Now I'd

[Emc-developers] on the subject of governance

2013-05-18 Thread Kent A. Reed
A modest suggestion: There are lots of governance models out there. Rather than try to invent one, choose an open source project (or more than one if you have several in mind) which best matches your vision for the size, scope, and impact of our LinuxCNC project and see how its governance

Re: [Emc-developers] Wear Offsets (was lathe-style tool patch)

2013-05-17 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 5/17/2013 10:20 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 17 May 2013 08:05, Chris Morley chrisinnana...@hotmail.com wrote: If I was doing a clean sheet Gcode dialect I think I would choose multiple geometry and wear offsets per tool, but that gets to be a lot of entries in the tool table. 100 tools x 10

Re: [Emc-developers] Wear Offsets (was lathe-style tool patch)

2013-05-17 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 5/17/2013 12:51 PM, EBo wrote: On May 17 2013 10:47 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 17 May 2013 17:27, Kent A. Reed kentallanr...@gmail.com wrote: If a relational database approach isn't acceptable, how about an object-oriented database approach instead? Why wouldn't it be? Snooping around

Re: [Emc-developers] STEP-NC (was Wear Offsets (was lathe-style tool patch))

2013-05-17 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 5/17/2013 1:46 PM, EBo wrote: Glad I could give you a gafaugh (or how ever it is spell it). I meant g-code - STEP-NC. Since there is source for a demonstration parser using ISO 14649, that might be a fruitful path and what I had in mind when I made my comment. I just do not know enough

Re: [Emc-developers] Wear Offsets (was lathe-style tool patch)

2013-05-17 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 5/17/2013 2:05 PM, Michael Haberler wrote: that said, what I am convinced is needed is proper design work on a relational_model_ for the tool miniworld (tools, offsets, spindles, magazines, wear, holders and whatever came up over the years) ... As for an OODB approach - I never

Re: [Emc-developers] lathe style toolchange patch

2013-05-16 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 5/16/2013 1:08 AM, Chris Morley wrote: At this point I really start to wonder how often G10 L10 P10001 is used in current lathe Gcode and start to consider other alternatives such as P01 for geometry, P0101 for wear etc. - It really makes it easier if the geometry offsets are under the

Re: [Emc-developers] LinuxCNC week at MPM/SFI

2013-05-16 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 5/16/2013 7:15 AM, andy pugh wrote: It seems a little more readily walkable to/from MPM than does the Candlewood. (Though I understand that being a pedestrian is illegal in the US:-) It might seem like that but some of us stubbornly walk as much as we can. I purposely chose a townhouse

Re: [Emc-developers] lathe style toolchange patch

2013-05-16 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 5/16/2013 9:00 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 16 May 2013 13:37, Kent A. Reed kentallanr...@gmail.com wrote: Out of ignorance, I ask - what existing G-code? Are we talking about I meant G-code as understood by LinuxCNC today. ie, where a tool change is M6 T3 G43 H4 not T0304. Ah, yes. I went

Re: [Emc-developers] Some initial BBB GPIO code

2013-05-09 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 5/8/2013 10:34 AM, Ian McMahon wrote: I started with Michaels's BBW work here: http://static.mah.priv.at/public/beaglebone/ The BBW 3.2 kernel won't work on the BBB, so I had to build a kernel. Here's a working 3.8.10 kernel for BBB: kernel-3.8.10-vanilla.tgz It's a vanilla kernel;

[Emc-developers] Woo hoo, possible alternative to U-Boot for the ARM boards

2013-05-09 Thread Kent A. Reed
Gentle persons: Don't know why I missed it before, but I just stumbled across the barebox project (www.barebox.org). It claims to combine the best of U-Boot with the Tao of Linux. barebox is a bootloader that initializes hardware and boots Linux and perhaps other operating systems or bare

Re: [Emc-developers] Proctor and Shackleford paper on jitter; was Re: LinuxCNC version for Debian Wheezy ?

2013-05-07 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 5/7/2013 5:53 AM, andy pugh wrote: This models a linear dependency of delta-torque to delta-time, which seems like it should break down at some point. Absolutely, just as the small-angle analysis of a pendulum begins to break down as the angle increases beyond 30deg-45deg, say. Fred and Will

Re: [Emc-developers] Proctor and Shackleford paper on jitter; was Re: LinuxCNC version for Debian Wheezy ?

2013-05-07 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 5/7/2013 12:23 PM, Jon Elson wrote: I have a VAGUE recollection that Mariss Freimanis may have written about this in his whitepapers about stepper performance. It might be worth a quick search on his website at Geckodrives. He has certainly done a LOT of testing of steppers. Jon, that's

Re: [Emc-developers] LinuxCNC version for Debian Wheezy ?

2013-05-06 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 5/6/2013 8:13 AM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: Yes, but if you've got a Mesa card, you don't gain that much on an x86 platform. Unless you're really pushing your servo rate, rtai and xenomai are IMHO really only necessary on x86 if you're trying to do software stepgen. But make sure you

Re: [Emc-developers] LinuxCNC version for Debian Wheezy ?

2013-05-06 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 5/6/2013 9:16 AM, Lars Segerlund wrote: check the data on osadl.org ... with RT-Preempt you should be able to get worstcase jitters of less than 50 us ... or you have a 'bad' system / bad drivers. With a 'good' RT-Preempt system you get 20 us as worstcase. osadl is good since

[Emc-developers] Proctor and Shackleford paper on jitter; was Re: LinuxCNC version for Debian Wheezy ?

2013-05-06 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 5/6/2013 5:00 PM, EBo wrote: does anyone remember the paper that was posted to the group that measured the loss in torque as a function of speed and jitter? That might give us a more principled start to develop guidelines. As a note, when you get anywhere close to the jitter threshold the

[Emc-developers] What's up with the Wiki?

2013-05-05 Thread Kent A. Reed
It is taking the Wiki a v-e-r-y long time to return pages at the moment. Response time for the Forum seems a tad long; the website, almost normal. Regards, Kent -- Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with

Re: [Emc-developers] The arm excrement has I believe, intersected with the air mover

2013-05-05 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 5/5/2013 10:04 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Guys Gals; There was a post that made it to one of the lkml related lists I am on this morning that I would liken to calling Linus out for a duel. Calling specific attention to his knowledge of x86 stuff being a huge hindrance in the arm world,

Re: [Emc-developers] introduction

2013-05-02 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 5/2/2013 6:21 PM, Ian McMahon wrote: Hi folks, I've been talking with Michael Haberler on IRC about getting involved with hal development for BeagleBoard Black, and I wanted to quickly introduce myself. I've been working with linuxcnc as a user for about four years now; just

Re: [Emc-developers] Musings re LCNC and Beaglebone White vs. Black

2013-04-28 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 4/28/2013 8:26 AM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: On 4/27/2013 7:23 PM, David Bagby wrote: snip I think you're trying to make things too complicated. I'm 99% sure the existing BBW SD image will run as-is on the BBB, 3.2 kernel and all, it just won't know about the new hardware (like the HDMI

Re: [Emc-developers] heads up on fast network I/O : netmap

2013-04-17 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 4/17/2013 12:37 PM, Michael Haberler wrote: ... I stumbled over this: http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ this is suggested reading for anybody interested in the field; if the performance and ease of build (some drivers) hold up to the promise, this could potentially do away with

Re: [Emc-developers] pmMatRpyConvert

2013-04-12 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 4/12/2013 8:22 AM, andy pugh wrote: Someone on the forum seems to have spotted something odd in pmMatRpyConvert http://www.linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/forum/30-cnc-machines/26392-the-study-of-arithmetic#32609 At best it seems like there is redundant code. Don't have my fingers on the

Re: [Emc-developers] Overview: the unified binary branch

2013-04-09 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 4/9/2013 3:12 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: The new RTOS builds are close to producing packages as Seb has thankfully updated the buildbot to run RT-PREEMPT and Xenomai kernels, so it is time to turn what's coming next building on this work, and that is the unified binary build. The code

Re: [Emc-developers] Fw: SourceForge project upgrades start April 22

2013-04-05 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 4/5/2013 3:44 PM, Matt Shaver wrote: Will this cause us any problems? Everything I read about this is long on announcement and short on details I can use. :) Thanks, Matt Reading over the Allura features list, http://sourceforge.net/p/allura/wiki/Features/, I don't see significant

Re: [Emc-developers] New ARM/FPGA Platform

2013-03-27 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 3/27/2013 2:52 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: I'm entertaining ideas here - it would not be good if the price for using such devices would be a collection of special-purpose hacks per-platform and per-device. But of course that is just what the pick-an-IP-from-column-A and one from

Re: [Emc-developers] New BeagleBone

2013-03-18 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 3/17/2013 10:08 AM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: For those following along on LinuxCNC ARM development, there's a new version of the BeagleBone coming out soon: http://beagleboard.org/unzipped More and faster memory, on-board flash, built-in HDMI, and a lower (but not yet announced)

[Emc-developers] Implementation of LCNC Copyright and licensing terms

2013-03-13 Thread Kent A. Reed
Gentle persons: I've spent every waking moment of the last two weeks by my wife's side after a massive infection put her into septic shock. Those of you who know me know this isn't a play for sympathy (and please, please, please, let's not fill this channel with responses to the news) but an

Re: [Emc-developers] xenomai on an Intel Atom motherboard- latency-test results

2013-03-03 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 3/3/2013 12:44 PM, Dan Falck wrote: Michael Haberler has guided me through installing xenomai on a computer I have here and I wanted to post my results from the latency-test. Intel Desktop Board D94GCLF2D (purchased from Newegg several years ago). Dan: I also have this Intel board

Re: [Emc-developers] xenomai on an Intel Atom motherboard- latency-test results

2013-03-03 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 3/3/2013 2:56 PM, Tom Easterday wrote: On Mar 3, 2013, at 1:40 PM, Kent A. Reed kentallanr...@gmail.com wrote: It seems to me things are stabilizing to the point where the Xenomai builds need no longer be considered experimental. IMHO, we should consider posting Xenomai metrics to the Wiki

Re: [Emc-developers] Porting miniEMC2 web interface

2013-03-03 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 2/28/2013 4:54 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: Hi GP, Sergey - I've tried it out on Lucid - I am impressed! Since you're wildly productive with integration, please fill me in on the bigger picture: how does this relate to your other projects? - Raspberry

Re: [Emc-developers] Unifying error message reporting in LinuxCNC

2013-02-26 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 2/26/2013 5:00 PM, Chris Radek wrote: I guess I just want us to consider what problem we are solving for the user before we decide on an architecture. I saw a lot of obviously syslog! and I didn't understand why we were jumping right to there, because it didn't seem to me that it solves

Re: [Emc-developers] 12.04-2 vs my lappy

2013-02-19 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 2/19/2013 11:05 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; I was advised that John Morris's new stuff was running on a 12.04 LTS install, where as a test install on 10.04-4 on my lappy wouldn't boot, the new kernel panic's about .6 seconds in, can't mount sda1 as /boot (or root, I didn't take a

Re: [Emc-developers] Xenomai latency spikes: feedback from Xenomai mailing list

2013-02-13 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 2/13/2013 6:08 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: Am 13.02.2013 um 11:37 schrieb andy pugh: On 13 February 2013 10:15, Michael Haberler mai...@mah.priv.at wrote: http://www.xenomai.org/pipermail/xenomai/2013-February/027675.html This sounds familiar, there is a similar situation with RTAI:

Re: [Emc-developers] Xenomai latency spikes: feedback from Xenomai mailing list : the reference

2013-02-13 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 2/13/2013 10:28 PM, Tom Easterday wrote: I spent the day playing with this on the Intel Atom D2700MUD. I rebuilt the system using the rtos-integration-preview3-merged-into-master branch. I rebuilt it for another reason (stupid graphics fubar) and figured I would try this branch for the

Re: [Emc-developers] Future directions of LinuxCNC development, and RTAPI restructuring tutorial

2013-02-06 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 2/6/2013 6:25 AM, John Morris wrote: On 02/04/2013 08:43 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: ...well in fact that's what John is doing for RTAPI, with the intent to arrive at a universal build that supports RTAI, Xenomai, RT_PREEMPT and sim 'automagically'; that's not part of the current merge

Re: [Emc-developers] Future directions of LinuxCNC development, was custom EDM configuration questions

2013-02-04 Thread Kent A. Reed
Gentle persons: I started to read an EDM discussion and discovered a future-directions discussion of LinuxCNC development hiding inside:-) The discussion is lovely and I hope it will grow. I just wish it had a better thread name so others would recognize it for what it is, hence the change in

[Emc-developers] A Lazy Programmer's Solution to the BeagleBone Netboot Lockup Problem

2013-01-25 Thread Kent A. Reed
Gentle persons: I won't repeat here Bas's analysis of the problem we're having with the BeagleBone/Ubuntu system. Here is my minimalist solution which requires no new programming, just a change in several configuration parameters. Please bear with the longish message. Because of an abrupt

Re: [Emc-developers] [Xenomai] new RTOS status: Scheduler (?) lockup on ARM - SUMMARY

2013-01-22 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/22/2013 9:01 AM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: On 1/22/2013 6:06 AM, Bas Laarhoven wrote: A final solution hasn't been found yet: I prefer a workaround without changing the dhclient or some other standard program. I think it would suffice to acquire a new lease right after the time-step

Re: [Emc-developers] BeagleBone DHCP Crashes

2013-01-21 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/21/2013 12:11 AM, EBo wrote: It sounds like this condition should be checked for in the scripts and/or code -- there are a number of conditions where stale files can be left around (although one would hope that this would be taken care of on bootup). Ebo: I added stanzas to

Re: [Emc-developers] BeagleBone DHCP Crashes

2013-01-21 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/21/2013 9:28 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: On 1/21/2013 12:11 AM, EBo wrote: It sounds like this condition should be checked for in the scripts and/or code -- there are a number of conditions where stale files can be left around (although one would hope that this would be taken care

Re: [Emc-developers] BeagleBone DHCP Crashes - WORKAROUND please test !

2013-01-21 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/21/2013 6:18 AM, Bas Laarhoven wrote: On 20-1-2013 18:31, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: On 1/19/2013 8:57 AM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: I've setup Michael Haberler's network booting of my BeagleBone, and I seem to be having the same network crashing on DHCP lease renewal issue others

Re: [Emc-developers] BeagleBone DHCP Crashes

2013-01-20 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/20/2013 12:31 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 1/19/2013 8:57 AM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: I've setup Michael Haberler's network booting of my BeagleBone, and I seem to be having the same network crashing on DHCP lease renewal issue

Re: [Emc-developers] BeagleBone DHCP Crashes

2013-01-20 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/20/2013 6:21 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: ... I was able to get a working system by deleting all existing lease files in /var/lib/dhcp/ and by forcing broadcast responses from the dhcp server (put always-broadcast on; in the BeagleBone host declaration). Further testing showed

Re: [Emc-developers] BeagleBone DHCP Crashes

2013-01-19 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/19/2013 2:46 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: On 1/19/2013 9:57 AM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've setup Michael Haberler's network booting of my BeagleBone, and I seem to be having the same network crashing on DHCP lease renewal issue others have

Re: [Emc-developers] new RTOS status: Scheduler (?) lockup on ARM

2013-01-17 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/17/2013 2:59 AM, Bas Laarhoven wrote: I think that running linuxcnc is mandatory for the lockup. After a dozen runs, it looks like I can reproduce the lockup with 100% certainty within one hour. Using the JTAG interface to attach a debugger to the Bone, I've found that once stalled the

Re: [Emc-developers] new RTOS status

2013-01-16 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/16/2013 9:15 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: a short update: There's a lot of really good news here, folks. My thanks and a tip of the hat to Michael, John, Charles, and everyone else who has contributed. I doubt most of us can appreciate how much work has been done to get us to this point.

Re: [Emc-developers] Beaglebone/Xenomai LinuxCNC starter kit

2013-01-03 Thread Kent A. Reed
[Oops - I responded to Joachim and forgot about the list. This is a resend.] On 1/3/2013 3:42 PM, Joachim Franek wrote: I have also observed the crashes after about 5min. But after several reboots I was able to run the cnc demo programm from sim/axis/axis_mm. Hi, Joachim. I'm the KAR. I've

Re: [Emc-developers] BeagleBone PRU Update

2012-12-26 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 12/25/2012 8:14 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Happy Holidays! Now that the hm2_pci driver works in user-space, and the Christmas turkey is cooked (and eaten!), I've managed to absorb enough details to write some code for the BeagleBone PRU

[Emc-developers] my thanks

2012-12-23 Thread Kent A. Reed
Gentle persons: Now that we have survived the great non-event of 2012, the end of the Mayan Calendar (something the descendents of the Mayans claim is totally misrepresented by us European descendents) and see the sun still comes up... Now that we have once again survived the Winter Solstice

Re: [Emc-developers] trying out Mesanet PCI cards with userland thread builds

2012-12-17 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 12/17/2012 6:21 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/17/2012 3:22 PM, Anders Wallin wrote: - pull this branch: http://git.mah.priv.at/gitweb/emc2-dev.git/shortlog/refs/heads/usermode-pci known-to-work configs are: 5i20.ini and 5i25.ini I

Re: [Emc-developers] Spindle speed display, green progress bar type

2012-12-13 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 12/13/2012 11:24 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 13 December 2012 11:01:49 Charles Steinkuehler did opine: On 12/13/2012 8:28 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: ... Looks like the section numbers changed. Try section 31.5 Spindle Soft Start in the Hardware Examples section. The example HAL

Re: [Emc-developers] naming/docs: hal_xxxx drivers?

2012-12-07 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 12/7/2012 6:49 AM, John Thornton wrote: In any case I doubt a newbee can find a man page with both hands... much less know to look for a man page. Now THAT'S dismissive :-) Seriously, though, I have cognitive issues with our man page system. Even seasoned users might miss that man abs -

Re: [Emc-developers] naming/docs: hal_xxxx drivers?

2012-12-07 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 12/7/2012 11:08 AM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: I've lived with man pages for decades, and our man pages seem well organized to me. I think that's my point, actually. It's commonly accepted among the folks who study such things that it takes roughly 6 to 10 years to become truly expert in

Re: [Emc-developers] latency histogram comp

2012-12-06 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 12/5/2012 7:55 PM, Dewey Garrett wrote: Here is a simple comp named lhisto.comp to show a histogram for latency values in 1,2,5 bin sizes over 4 decades: http://www.panix.com/~dgarrett/stuff/lhisto.comp This is great, Dewey. Thanks. I'm glad I decided to put off my own effort until

Re: [Emc-developers] latency histogram comp

2012-12-06 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 12/6/2012 9:15 AM, EBo wrote: ... From that I can see that there is a small group of outliers at ±20us. From this information we might be able to look at the traces to see what is happening around those events and cleaning up some of the latency. I hear one of the previous posters

Re: [Emc-developers] outliers [was: latency histogram comp]

2012-12-06 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 12/6/2012 3:38 PM, EBo wrote: On Dec 6 2012 12:27 PM, Anders Wallin wrote: Is the ±20us always happening during the startup? If so, we can probably work around this. If it is periodic, or happens much later, then it points to a real issue. On my machine the few events at +/- 20us do

Re: [Emc-developers] formal analysis [was: xenomai + linuxcnc on 12.04LTS]

2012-12-05 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 12/5/2012 4:16 AM, EBo wrote: On Dec 4 2012 9:06 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: ... If one is satisfied that the internal, latency-test approach provides a reasonable metric, then it would be dead-simple to take latency-test/latencyplot a step further, bin the results, and derive interesting

Re: [Emc-developers] formal analysis [was: xenomai + linuxcnc on 12.04LTS]

2012-12-05 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 12/5/2012 2:38 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 05 December 2012 14:33:01 EBo did opine: On Dec 5 2012 9:03 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: On 12/5/2012 4:16 AM, EBo wrote: On Dec 4 2012 9:06 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: ... If one is satisfied that the internal, latency-test approach provides

[Emc-developers] aside: experience

2012-12-04 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 12/4/2012 5:41 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: So much for the value of re-applying past experiences;) Fortunately, human beings have the capacity both to remember the past (ala George Santayana) and to imagine the future can be different. Or as my grandmother (sorry, she was the font of all

Re: [Emc-developers] xenomai + linuxcnc on 12.04LTS

2012-12-04 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 12/4/2012 2:47 AM, Anders Wallin wrote: I'm trying to place your 30us latency number in context. What motherboard/bios/cpu? This is a new Intel DH61AG mini-ITX motheboard with an Intel Core i3 2120T 2.6 GHz LGA1155 CPU. It has 4G of ram and a 60G SSD disk. On specs alone, this sounds like

Re: [Emc-developers] on the ARM builds

2012-12-03 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 12/3/2012 12:51 AM, EBo wrote: On Dec 2 2012 10:26 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: ... Curiously, Plan 9 (the OS from ATT, not the movie from Ed Wood!) has recently been reemerging in the Internet consciousness. I don't think Plan 9 is the answer, but the outside-the-box thinking that went

Re: [Emc-developers] xenomai + linuxcnc on 12.04LTS

2012-12-02 Thread Kent A. Reed
Quoting from the exchange between Michael Haberler and Anders Wallin: AW sudo update-initramfs -c -k 3.2.21-xenomai+ (I am not sure this is required or done by dpkg) MAH at least the 10.04 dpkg fails to do that for me, maybe this is some option I am missing; but dpkg and friends are in

Re: [Emc-developers] on the ARM builds

2012-12-02 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 12/2/2012 11:22 PM, Michael Haberler wrote: just noting where we are on various ARM builds - ARM really because it is the only non-x86 platform I'm looking into and so I have nothing contribute otherwise And a very nice note it is, Michael. There's more factual meat in it than I have

Re: [Emc-developers] xenomai + linuxcnc on 12.04LTS

2012-12-02 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 12/2/2012 11:27 PM, Michael Haberler wrote in response to me: KAR ... Neither build broke. In the first case redis isn't present, as Michael has already explained, but in the second case redis certainly is present. Where in the build are you running into trouble with redis on a 12.04LTS

Re: [Emc-developers] proof of concept: HAL module/driver for Beaglebone/ARM335x PRU realtime coprocessor

2012-11-30 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 11/30/2012 8:51 AM, Yishin Li wrote: On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Kent A. Reed kentallanr...@gmail.comwrote: On 11/29/2012 9:42 PM, Yishin Li wrote: Yocto might be useful for cross building. I've tried to cross build yocto for x86. It also supports BeagleBone. I don't have experience

Re: [Emc-developers] PCI Progress

2012-11-21 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 11/21/2012 8:09 AM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: I don't mind. I would have sent to the dev list in the first place, but I'm still figuring out what should/shouldn't be posted to the list. Oh, please! The reason you can't figure it out is we have no rulesjust a sense that this is where

Re: [Emc-developers] Gladevcp+HAL standalone applications on Raspberry Pi: works

2012-11-20 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 11/20/2012 11:40 AM, Anders Wallin wrote: Good news! I've ordered a Pi (Farnell re-directs to a local distributor), but the delivery-time seems to be 3 weeks right now(?) Good luck with that! Some six months ago I ordered an original (256MB) Series-B RPi from Allied Electronics here in the

Re: [Emc-developers] Preview: LinuxCNC 2.5 single codebase - supports RTAI, RT_PREEMPT, Xenomai-kernel, Xenomai-User, Simulator

2012-11-14 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 11/14/2012 2:19 AM, John Morris wrote: While sitting around waiting for the umpteenth time for the Xenomai kernel to build, this time with Michael's config just to help narrow things down, I compiled up LinuxCNC xenomai-user. Latency-test works. And on the same kernel that, combined with

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