Re: Arcnet drivers

Herman,

Thanks for the clarification. That was my understanding about Orocos 
being hardware independent. I know others in the past have successfully 
integrated RTAI and arcnet communication. I guess I was just 
broadcasting to see if there was anyone paying attention to these lists 
who has experience with this.

J.D.



Herman Bruyninckx wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, NZG wrote:
>
>>> While I am spamming the mailing list, I thought I would start another
>>> thread about questions I have on arcnet card drivers. The problem is I
>>> am just about clueless when it comes to Linux and device drivers to
>>> begin with (I am a native windows programmer).
>>
>> I don't know much about Arcnet, but IMHO Orocos seems to be a more 
>> popular
>> choice for open robot control.
>> (If someone disagree's here please set me straight, I'm just getting 
>> into this
>> field myself)
>
> Arcnet is about _hardware drivers_ for a particular type of communication
> channel; orocos is a set of libraries to control robots and machine 
> tools,
> _independent_ of the hardware you use. These driver issues are what we 
> call
> "hot spots" in the Orocos framework: _you_ have to fill them in for your
> particular hardware, because Orocos wants to remain hardware neutral.
>
> Herman
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