Lets get Ethercat into the Linuxcnc distribution. Need technical people to help

The migration to Debian before my time was due to Ubuntu's lawyers refusing to allow Linuxcnc to distribute ISOs in terms of their license..
It really is academic now to discuss other platforms as all going well in about 5 days Linuxcnc master will be in the Debian Testing branch which will become Bookworm version 12 on the next release.

Ultimately this will mean linuxcnc will end up in Mint and other Debian based distros when they eventually adopt the Bookworm repos. 

So with the IgH Ethercat repos being available and tested as working  by a few now, the only code to compile is Sittner's ethercat driver. So with the patches now in master branch, our efforts should be turned to making it a deb for a truly codeless install and getting it into Debian...

really ubuntu lawyers moove for that?? ... seems really absurds .... but if they did ... they did.

But you are at the end of work think my help is too late ... or not?

regards

A couple of ways to help.
If you knew how to (or could learn how to) build a deb file, fork sittners repo  github.com/sittner/linuxcnc-ethercat and package that in a way it could be included into Linuxcnc or Debian...  I was planning to try to learn how to do this.

I have started on a custom homing module for cia402 drives with sqmathelete. I'm trying to base it on Dominic'a cia402.comp   github.com/dbraun1981/hal-cia402 .
We are using then new homecomp user buildable homing modules.
linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/man/man9/homecomp.9.html

Its nowhere near working but I put what I've done to date on git hub here earlier today.
github.com/rodw-au/ciahome
We have not added any of the homing stuff yet, just trying to get the rest of the structure right on the cia402 side. Help here would be another avenue to help the cause...
 

bkt wrote:

really ubuntu lawyers moove for that?? ... seems really absurds

The actual problem was that Ubuntu's conditions changed to require that _all_ Ubuntu branding was removed from a distribution such as ours. But they wouldn't provide any guidance to which files were "branded" so it was basically impossible to comply.

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The actual problem was that Ubuntu's conditions changed to require that _all_ Ubuntu branding was removed from a distribution such as ours. But they wouldn't provide any guidance to which files were "branded" so it was basically impossible to comply.

in fact, every three by two only the positions of the logos change .... I guess everything else is worse .... now the situation is clearer to me ... Thanks

dear Rodw,

For the DEB thing ... in fact it's something that I know how to do only as a 13-year-old child would ... so I have a lot to learn ... but I'd like to do it. So if you have no timeline .... I'm on board.

For the home module, I think I can help better .... but consider that:

to create something very fast (a qt5 c ++ interface) I needed to be addressed by the work of GROTIUS .... and I spent a week 6 hours a day.
On the other hand, feeling guilty with everyone here on the forum, I made a sort of storiboard of the week .... I should finish it ... but not now ...
 The work of Grotius and others recently (the work of dgarret helped me a lot to understand) helped me to "enter" with greater ease "the head of Lcnc" .... if you do not know the files you can do little and with effort.

That said ... the only problem I see is the weather .... the next 3 weeks are out.

After that I make a commitment .... also because as well as serving me it will serve many.


In any case, I have decided that I will post every next thing I do here on the forum .... unless the administrators think I am stealing useful space by posting nonsense.

bkt