Pi4b and Pi5 users - What should go in a 2.9.3 image

Would an RTAI variant be applicable to the Rpi4?  (Not to create more work for you Rod!  But it may be more performant, or no?)

It would only make sense if you are using GPIO/software stepping. SPI & Ethernet work fine on the RPi4. And honestly there are far better options, performance & price wise than any of the RPi variants. The only plus side is the physical size of the device.

Who's going to take up the mantle of building & testing the kernel ? The x86 variant is not 100% yet. Then there is the issue whether the RPi kernel has a matching RTAI patch. Then the RPi5 would require another kernel to be tested. So yes it would be a hell of a lot of work for rod.

Cant do this anymore bye all wrote:

So yes it would be a hell of a lot of work for rod.

It won't be cos  I ain't doing RTAI

rodw wrote:

Cant do this anymore bye all wrote:

So yes it would be a hell of a lot of work for rod.
It won't be cos  I ain't doing RTAI
 

hahahahaha

Sorry to bother but is there an ETA on the 2.9.3? 
and will the game pad key mapping be included? ex:  github.com/AntiMicroX/antimicrox?tab=readme-ov-file

Apologies for the delay here. I was putting this off in preference to other Linuxcnc projects but its time has come

Pi 5 Image  drive.google.com/file/d/1iwQpbMoNdI6wnv7...MyZ/view?usp=sharing
Pi4 Image  drive.google.com/file/d/1Fg2CPTezUyrRFrO...ytT/view?usp=sharing  

Kernel 6.6.4 as per the raspberry pi's kernel git
Tested as working by Joco who bought a pi5 yesterday for the occasion!
Monitor support now fixed. He was using a 34" 3440 x 1440 monitor 

Ethercat apt repos now included
QTPYVCP repos a work in progress with the QTPYVCP team now VTK is in the Debian Repos.

There are no added programs, What was suggested was a bit out of left field as none of it was included in our AMD64 build.
Please read the downloads page on how to configure wifi, timezones and locales