Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] EMC and Linux versions RedHat vs Mandrake

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Goldstein" <timg@...>
To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com>
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 1:51 AM
Subject: RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] EMC and Linux versions RedHat vs Mandrake


> From: "Tim Goldstein" <timg@...>
>
> Doug,
>
> You may not be a RedHat fan, but you are going against the stream trying
to
> get EMC to run on anything else. I am no expert on this, but from what I
> understand RedHat has made a few changes in the kernel and EMC is
expecting
> them to be there. I do remember people trying to get EMC to run on other
> Linux distributions, but I don't remember anyone actually getting it to
work
> with a real time kernel and making a machine run.
>
I've been able to get EMC up and running on a Mandrake 6.0 system. It
really wasn't that hard. As far as what EMC want's to see in the kernel, I
just downloaded the pre-patched 2.2.13 kernel from rtlinux.org. It seems
there are slight directory structure differences between the different
distributions and I had to make 2 or 3 links so that the rt kernel and EMC
could find everything they needed to compile but it wasn't too hard.

Joel

P.S. the March 15 release is much better for freqmot. I can get my PERIOD
down to 10-12us on a K6400.