Re: Arcnet drivers

Sure, but Comedi typically fills in that hardware hot spot right?

NZG

On Monday 30 January 2006 12:53 pm, J.D. Yamokoski wrote:
> 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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