Why real time kernel is needed with board like MESA?

stivemaster13 wrote: I just want to say that unlike most members of this forum I am 50 years old!

Meaning no offense to anyone but I never got the impression this was a young man's forum... Maybe I'm wrong?

stivemaster13 wrote: I just want to say that unlike most members of this forum I am 50 years old!

So am i.

It seems we have another case of Educated Far Beyond Their Capacity to Undertake Analytical Thought or at the other end of the scale are we seeing the Dunning–Kruger effect in full swing ?


I'm happy just being a dumb ass labourer. Actually whatever role I took on I'd still be a dumb ass.

You could have been humble.
Proposed some ideas.

Linuxcnc is good in itself.
You can start a new project.


you can fork linuxcnc and make some changes.
port the whole system to a FPGA, call it EMC3 or whatever.

Because what you seem to ask is not Linuxcnc really meant to do, that is basically an Arduino with CNC sheild and being controlled over usb.
I know there is nothing wrong with that. We need projects like that. Many new Open-source browsers evolved even after firefox. And there are more than enough linux distros. So, scope of your suggestion is pretty big, but you cant judge what other people have done.
But changing an existing project fundamentally is not good.

Projects you showed in examples are good and can be refined for daily use, so support projects like those, pay some programmers to work in those.
When it comes to community, you cannot force people. (though I like the way Linus Torwalds work :laugh: )

Pulling the motion control out of Linuxcnc to stick it in hardware outside, is kind of defeating the whole point of Linuxcnc (controlling a cnc with a PC). It's like someone going to a railroad enthusiast and saying you can do it all better with cars and trucks, but the enthusiast will reply, but then it isn't a railroad.

The cnczone thread he links to has been dead for 10 years or so.
Hackaday meh.
One of the other links didn’t have a great deal of substance.
Two academic papers, one with spelling errors.
I think our friend might be an enthusiast of technology rather than one who has interest in machining. The type that weighs in and proclaims “current thinking is this way”.
Mayhaps a Technology Fashionista ?
Weight till he sees that it is possible to emulate a FPGA on a GPU. The vid I saw on it confused me greatly.