On Wed, 2 May 2007, Jan Kiszka wrote: [...] >>> But note in advance that RTnet for I/O coupling requires RTnet I/O >>> coupler that you cannot buy as there are no commercial ones. You would >>> have to embed it on your own. Maybe you then rather want to use the >>> Ethercat MasterLibrary with RTnet to attach Ethercat I/O nodes. >> >> This looks like it may be a break. I had just found ethercat before this >> mail came in. By the look of things (very early) the hardware (Beckhoff) >> will give the IO and according to the vendor (who I have limited faith >> in by now) should make the time. >> >> But my next problem will be to get xenomai to work with ethercat. You >> say I can try using the Ethercat Master library with RTnet. But why >> would I need RTnet? How will the layering look in this case? IOW what >> functionality will the ethernet master library provide and what will the >> RTnet provide? >> >> Has anyone done this before?
We did. We used it to drive a 2-dof table. > [being in a hurry] > Check the links on www.rtnet.org to the related project at FMTC. They > even have mailing lists for detail questions. > > The setup will be: Xenomai (basis) + RTnet (RT-NIC driver, core network > stack) + EML (userspace lib with Ethercat master code) + Your App > (linked against Xenomai and EML). <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg01668.html> Klaas _______________________________________________ Xenomai-help mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/xenomai-help
