Can Asus Tinker Board run LINUXCNC

My current project is getting the cnc interface figured out, any help would be great. For now my direction is to use the GPIO headers as a direct step/dir end stops, spindle control etc... setup. I'm trying to put together information on what the best plan for the board would be. Any advice is more then welcome. I'm currently amassing different HAL_GPIO.c file versions with different design logic idea. SPI HAL and others. My ideal goal is to get the GPIO port to work like a parallel port in function. If I have to go external hardware like mesa or some other system I will, But I consider it last resort. The next task is tuning the system for performance. It has been suggested that one of the cores be isolated for RT functions only.

on the Grup you can just do a ISOCPU
"isolcpus=2,3" as many you like you can also check if not the first is the fastest and use that one with the lowest latency

if anyone is loooking for more information I have posted a lot here forum.armbian.com/topic/10007-tinker-boa...-working-free-offer/ more or less the home base for info...

pl7i92 noted.

I have installed the RT kernel and Linuxcnc in my Tinker Board S. However it shows error when I choose the mesa 7i90 in hm2_stepper. The error shows in the terminal is as follows. Do anyone knows what is wrong?

atech@tinkerboard:~/linuxcnc-dev/src$ linuxcnc
LINUXCNC - 2.9.0~pre0
Machine configuration directory is '/home/atech/linuxcnc-dev/configs/by_interface/mesa/hm2-stepper'
Machine configuration file is '7i90.ini'
Starting LinuxCNC...
Found file(REL): ./hm2-stepper.hal
Note: Using POSIX realtime
hm2: loading Mesa HostMot2 driver version 0.15
hm2_7i90: loading HostMot2 Mesa 7i90 driver version 0.3
Linux parallel port #0 not found
hm2_7i90: rtapi_app_main: No such file or directory (-2)
./hm2-stepper.hal:38: waitpid failed /home/atech/linuxcnc-dev/bin/rtapi_app hm2_7i90
./hm2-stepper.hal:38: /home/atech/linuxcnc-dev/bin/rtapi_app exited without becoming ready
./hm2-stepper.hal:38: insmod for hm2_7i90 failed, returned -1
Shutting down and cleaning up LinuxCNC...
hm2: unloading
Note: Using POSIX realtime
LinuxCNC terminated with an error. You can find more information in the log:
/home/atech/linuxcnc_debug.txt
and
/home/atech/linuxcnc_print.txt
as well as in the output of the shell command 'dmesg' and in the terminal

is the 7i90 powerd at PC Startup and connected
can you ping the CARD IP
what does in terminal
dmesg | grep parpo*
output
can you plese get the HAL and ii Files posted
are you working wqith the NEW or old Statments of Parport in the Config
when did you last time update the 2.9 it has changed over the weekend in parport behave

I personly recomend you to get the 2.7.14 version as you run a standard mashine
if you plan to get tandem like XXYZ Stay at 2.9
the 2.7.14 is very clean and will get you fast to a working mashine

The hm2_7i90 driver is a EPP parallel port driver so its not going to work on a Tinker board.

If you intend to use a SPI interface, you might try the generic hm2_spi driver though there is no guarantee that it will work (it depends an the availability and quality of the Tinkers OS spi driver)

I suspect that a custom driver would be needed perhaps based on the
hm2_rpspi driver used with the Raspberry Pi

In addition to having a working SPI driver on the host CPU you also need to install SPI
firmware on the 7I90 (via EPP and mesaflash is probably the easiest way)

Sorry about asking stupid questions. I am a rookie of using Linux and LinuxCNC.
I have found some data on github such as (github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/blob/master...hostmot2/hm2_rpspi.c)

The question is that I don't know how to use or install it.
Could anyone teach me how to do it?
( It will be very appreciate if you could offer me the command in the terminal and explain the meaning of it)

Loading information is in a hm2_rpspi manual page:

man hm2_rpspi

But note, the hm2_rpspi drives works only with the Raspberry PI,
I would try the generic spi driver first on the Tinkerboard:

man hm2_spi

I tried to load hm2_spi and hm2_rpspi today.
But both of them showed errors.

The error are as follows
Is that means something is missing?
How can I fix it?