Mesa Flash - Mesa 7i94.

Hello PCW,

Yes, I've done that. Thank you!

Can you please tell us what are you trying to achieve as the end result, it seems you keep trying to do things you really do not need to.
On the first screen you are using a config for a parallel port and your PC does not have one, at least not at the address it is looking for (0x378).

Hello,

At this point I want to create a configuration (Hal.file and Ini.file) that I can edit and adapt to my application.

However, I'm not sure if the re-built LinuxCNC 2.8 will work witth Mesa 7i94. So, I just selected a sample configuration to test it. It crashes when I select this : "Sample Configurations\by_interface\parport\etch-servo\etch"

However, this does not happen when I use the LinuxCNC 2.7, which is currently installed.


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What is 7i94 supposed to do? Stepgens? GPIO? Encoders? PWM? SSI, Smart Serial ?

Smart Serial and GPIO (for home switches).
The current firmware is the 7194ss_5abobd.bit

The first step would be to get a working 7I94 hal file, you will not get far with hal files for other hardware. I think I have a test config (for step-dir) you can try but I have to dig it up

Also here is the latest snapshot of Mesa HM2 changes:

freeby.mesanet.com/newmesa.zip

Note that this should be unzipped into the yourlinuxcnc-dev/src/hal/drivers/mesa-hm2 directory and the Makefile moved to yourlinuxcnc-dev/src