Kernel uspace and Mesa Ethernet boards

Hello all,

I've been reading up on uspace and ethernet boards from Mesa.

From what I've read I made the following asumptions:

1. In order to run a machine with a mesa ethernet board (in my case the 7i76e and the 7i92) I need to compile a version for uspace. (That beeing linuxcnc 2.7 or newer)
2. In order to run this correctly I need another kernel than the RTAI kernal shipped on the CD.

I'm fairly shure about the first assumption, but not the last. If I'm right, where can I get the correct kernel? I have not compiled a linux kernel since 1999, I'm a bit rusty...

A bit of background for the questions. In my workshop I have three machines. A ZX-45 mill, A Colne 5 CNC lathe and a home build foam cutter. I'd like to run all three on LinuxCNC. The mill and the foamcutter runs Linuxcnc today, but I'd like to upgrade both to the ethernet boards. And for the lathe I will need to add some ekstra VHDL code to interface the existing hardware. This is not a big task, and should be hard enough to get my VHDL skills back up to a "usable" level. I realy like the idea of interfacing using ethernet. Galvanic isolation, no problem with "long" cable runs. Cheap and simple cabling and so on. The alternative would have been a couple of 5i25s or 6i25s. But that is just to mainstream


Cheers!
Bernie

Note: make sure to install with sudo apt-get install linuxcnc-uspace