Re: [Emc-users] Running on a G4 MAc (new world)

2008-05-02 Thread stephan wintner
Sorry for the late reply - this is of interest to me, I would like to run Linux (Ubuntu or whatever) on my Mac, running it through a parallel port card Have fun -Stephan On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 7:28 PM, paul_c [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jason On Monday 11 February 2008 07:45, Jason Cox

Re: [Emc-users] Running on a G4 MAc (new world)

2008-05-02 Thread Jason Cox
Stephan, I am just working on the RTAI kernel at the moment under Ubuntu 8.04. Unfortunatly the last patch was on a 2.6.20 kernel and so I have to work out a patch for 2.6.24. My plan is to setup 2.6.24with a rtai kernel for a x86 and then port the powerpc rtai kernel patches in over the

Re: [Emc-users] Running on a G4 MAc (new world)

2008-05-02 Thread Alex Joni
Hi Jason, I don't think you want that.. at some point (but details elude me) there has been some majour restructuring in the ppc/powerpc tree. I think you will find it easiest to just start with the stuff RTAI has support for. If you want to give x86 on Hardy a spin, join the devel list.

Re: [Emc-users] Running on a G4 MAc (new world)

2008-05-02 Thread Jason Cox
Alex, there already Jason On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 02:04 +0300, Alex Joni wrote: Hi Jason, I don't think you want that.. at some point (but details elude me) there has been some majour restructuring in the ppc/powerpc tree. I think you will find it easiest to just start with the stuff

Re: [Emc-users] Running on a G4 MAc (new world)

2008-02-11 Thread Alex Joni
) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 9:45 AM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Running on a G4 MAc (new world) Paul, I am about ready to start on the mac port :) I am trying to decide onwhich way to go. 1. install xcode and try to get rtai to work on a 10.4 10.5 kernel. I

Re: [Emc-users] Running on a G4 MAc (new world)

2008-02-11 Thread paul_c
Hi Jason On Monday 11 February 2008 10:19, Jason Cox wrote: Ok i will move over to the Dev list. Keep it here. Dev list is ... Alex, was this a roll you own linux distro that you were using? What i have is a G4 (gray case) UP with 1G ram so it should do ok. I seem to be seeing a lot about

Re: [Emc-users] Running on a G4 MAc (new world)

2008-02-11 Thread Jason Cox
Ok i will move over to the Dev list. Alex, was this a roll you own linux distro that you were using? What i have is a G4 (gray case) UP with 1G ram so it should do ok. I seem to be seeing a lot about slow compiling, is it realy bad or just takes time? I could setup a cross compiler under my gentoo

Re: [Emc-users] Running on a G4 MAc (new world)

2008-02-11 Thread paul_c
Hi Jason On Monday 11 February 2008 07:45, Jason Cox wrote: Paul, I am about ready to start on the mac port :) I am trying to decide onwhich way to go. 1. install xcode and try to get rtai to work on a 10.4 10.5 kernel. I have done a bit of digging into this and havent had much

Re: [Emc-users] Running on a G4 MAc (new world)

2008-02-10 Thread Jason Cox
Paul, I am about ready to start on the mac port :) I am trying to decide onwhich way to go. 1. install xcode and try to get rtai to work on a 10.4 10.5 kernel. I have done a bit of digging into this and havent had much luck in finding anyone who has don it. downfall as i dont know

Re: [Emc-users] Running on a G4 MAc (new world)

2008-02-06 Thread paul_c
Hi Jason On Wednesday 06 February 2008 02:59, Jason Cox wrote: As i started this thread, i should put my hand up, but there are a few problems at the moment. I have just started uni (after 10 years) and I would need a guide for setting up a development environment on OSX. All you need is

Re: [Emc-users] Running on a G4 MAc (new world)

2008-02-05 Thread paul_c
On Sunday 03 February 2008 05:35, Jason Cox wrote: as luck would have it, I was given recently an old G4 Mac. is it posible to run EMC on a ppc32? After proding a few people I know, some feedback.. The core library, libnml compiles and appears to be functioning when linked to the test suite.

Re: [Emc-users] Running on a G4 MAc (new world)

2008-02-05 Thread Alex Joni
: [Emc-users] Running on a G4 MAc (new world) Maybe ... https://mail.rtai.org/pipermail/rtai/2004-July/008098.html G3 and G4's are both ppc's. Unfortunately the mac mini ( duo or duo2 core) doesn't have appropriate I/O for emc but it is a nice box ... a stack of CDROM's about 6 high

Re: [Emc-users] Running on a G4 MAc (new world)

2008-02-05 Thread Jason Cox
Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 7:33 PM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Running on a G4 MAc (new world) Maybe ... https://mail.rtai.org/pipermail/rtai/2004-July/008098.html G3 and G4's are both ppc's. Unfortunately the mac mini

Re: [Emc-users] Running on a G4 MAc (new world)

2008-02-05 Thread Chris Radek
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 12:36:08AM +0200, Alex Joni wrote: This is a bit more recent: https://mail.rtai.org/pipermail/rtai/2008-February/018692.html Regards, Alex Pardon my mac ignorance but did someone say there's a model with a pci slot, isa slot, or parallel port? Unless one of the

Re: [Emc-users] Running on a G4 MAc (new world)

2008-02-05 Thread Jason Cox
G4 and up, also known as New World :) Jason On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 21:30 -0600, Chris Radek wrote: On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 12:36:08AM +0200, Alex Joni wrote: This is a bit more recent: https://mail.rtai.org/pipermail/rtai/2008-February/018692.html Regards, Alex Pardon my mac

Re: [Emc-users] Running on a G4 MAc (new world)

2008-02-05 Thread Jason Cox
Forgot to say, 4 pci and a PPort, 2x ide On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 15:02 +1100, Jason Cox wrote: G4 and up, also known as New World :) Jason On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 21:30 -0600, Chris Radek wrote: On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 12:36:08AM +0200, Alex Joni wrote: This is a bit more recent:

Re: [Emc-users] Running on a G4 MAc (new world)

2008-02-05 Thread Dave Engvall
Google apple-history. Looks like the first mac to have pci was the 7200 in 1995. (3 slots). Dave On Feb 5, 2008, at 7:30 PM, Chris Radek wrote: On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 12:36:08AM +0200, Alex Joni wrote: This is a bit more recent: https://mail.rtai.org/pipermail/rtai/2008-February/018692.html

Re: [Emc-users] Running on a G4 MAc (new world)

2008-02-03 Thread Alan Condit
Jason Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, my i386 class emc pc just died :( as luck would have it, I was given recently an old G4 Mac. is it possible to run EMC on a ppc32? any pointers ? thanks Jason -

Re: [Emc-users] Running on a G4 MAc (new world)

2008-02-03 Thread Chris Radek
Since emc 2.2, it's been possible to build sim on a mac. I do this on mine, but I think mine's a G3, not a G4. I don't think RTAI works on mac (but I haven't looked hard) so even aside from hardware driver issues, there's no way to control machinery with emc/mac.

Re: [Emc-users] Running on a G4 MAc (new world)

2008-02-03 Thread Dave Engvall
Maybe ... https://mail.rtai.org/pipermail/rtai/2004-July/008098.html G3 and G4's are both ppc's. Unfortunately the mac mini ( duo or duo2 core) doesn't have appropriate I/O for emc but it is a nice box ... a stack of CDROM's about 6 high. :-) Dave On Feb 3, 2008, at 9:22 AM, Chris Radek

Re: [Emc-users] Running on a G4 MAc (new world)

2008-02-03 Thread Jon Elson
Jason Cox wrote: Hi all, my i386 class emc pc just died :( as luck would have it, I was given recently an old G4 Mac. is it posible to run EMC on a ppc32? any pointers ? Does it have a parallel port? If not, you are in pretty serious trouble. Not to mention the problems of getting an

Re: [Emc-users] Running on a G4 MAc (new world)

2008-02-03 Thread paul_c
On Sunday 03 February 2008 20:31, Jon Elson wrote: I was given recently an old G4 Mac. is it posible to run EMC on a ppc32? Does it have a parallel port?  If not, you are in pretty serious trouble. The right question should be: Does it have any expansion slots that would allow an IO card to

Re: [Emc-users] Running on a G4 MAc (new world)

2008-02-03 Thread Alan Condit
Chris Radek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since emc 2.2, it's been possible to build sim on a mac. I do this on mine, but I think mine's a G3, not a G4. Chris, You are talking about building sim on linux on the mac, not OS X right? Alan

Re: [Emc-users] Running on a G4 MAc (new world)

2008-02-03 Thread Chris Radek
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 04:18:49AM +, Alan Condit wrote: Chris, You are talking about building sim on linux on the mac, not OS X right? Alan Yes, my old mac is running ubuntu dapper. I don't know anything about OS X or any other mac OS, but I hear they're unixy now, so you'd surely

Re: [Emc-users] Running on a G4 MAc (new world)

2008-02-03 Thread Dave Engvall
Hi Chris, AFIK OSX is a BSD unix with Apple's GUI on top. However, one can add X instead. Dave On Feb 3, 2008, at 8:26 PM, Chris Radek wrote: On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 04:18:49AM +, Alan Condit wrote: Chris, You are talking about building sim on linux on the mac, not OS X right?

[Emc-users] Running on a G4 MAc (new world)

2008-02-02 Thread Jason Cox
Hi all, my i386 class emc pc just died :( as luck would have it, I was given recently an old G4 Mac. is it posible to run EMC on a ppc32? any pointers ? thanks Jason - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft

Re: [Emc-users] Running on a G4 MAc (new world)

2008-02-02 Thread Jim Coleman
if i was in the situation i'd try to ebay the mac and use the money to buy parts to either rebuild the old PC or build a new one. I havnt looked lately, but macs seem to retain value, more than PCs at least. i guess to me it would seem easier to fix the old pc than to compile emc to run on a