Re:pncconf - feature requests

I have pushed to 2.5 most of what is needed to support the 5i25, aside from the HAL code to actually load the 5i25
(it has to be different if it doesn't load firmware each time)

one also has to use the 'back-door' way of adding custom firmware to PNCconf, using a file with a python array.


Andy, would you be willing to test ?
You remember how you added custom firmware last time?

It should work aside from loading the card. (in other words you will need to hand-edit the loadrt hm2_pci line.)

Chris,

I have a 5i25 and 7i76 coming next week and will test pncconf when it arrives.

John

All thats required there is deleting the "firmware=blahblahblah"

thanks Peter I will work on supporting that.

Peter can you explain how the 7i76 works? I'm guessing it uses one of the smart serial channels for the 48 I/O points? Which one?
Is the 48 I/O points similar to the 7i64 ? ie the inputs and outputs are designated (they are not GPIO)

Yes, it has a local SSERIAL device for the 32 inputs and 16 outputs, spindle output voltage, direction, and enable flags and possibly 4 analog inputs (and one analog field voltage pin)

I think it may be difficult to completely support via pncconf unless pncconf can work with data from a
live system since some pins may or may not be there depending in the SSERIAL device mode.

The I/O pin names are Input and Output not sure about the other names yet