Hello.
For getting into Linux CNC, I built a small test setup (mainly power supply, 7i76E, 7i74 and 7i73... planning to add additional hardware later).
As this is just for testing purposes only, I run Debian 11 64bit in a VM (VM Player). PREEMPT_RT kernel is installed (uname -a output: "5.10.0-11-rt-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_RT Debian 5.10.92-1 (2022-01-18) x86_64 GNU/Linux"). I built Linux CNC from master branch (make & sudo make setuid) and run it directly from bin dir.
I am able to ping 7i76E. Also I can access the 7i76E using mesaflash:
Code:
ETH device 7I76E-16 at ip=192.168.1.121
Communication:
transport layer: ethernet IPv4 UDP
ip address: 192.168.1.121
mac address: 00:60:1B:10:4A:99
protocol: LBP16 version 3
Board info:
Flash size: 16Mb (id: 0x14)
Connectors count: 3
Pins per connector: 17
Connectors names: on-card P1 P2
FPGA type: 6slx16ftg256
Number of leds: 4
Board firmware info:
memory spaces:
0: HostMot2 (registers, RW, 32-bit) [size=64K]
1: KSZ8851 (registers, RW, 16-bit) [size=256]
2: EtherEEP (EEPROM, RW, 16-bit) [size=128], page size: 1, erase size: 1
3: FPGAFlsh (flash, RW, 32-bit) [size=16M], page size: 256, erase size: 65536
4: Timers (memory, RW, 16-bit) [size=16]
6: LBP16RW (memory, RW, 16-bit) [size=16]
7: LBP16RO (memory, RO, 16-bit) [size=16]
[space 0] HostMot2
[space 2] Ethernet eeprom:
mac address: 00:60:1B:10:4A:99
ip address: 10.10.10.10
board name: 7I76E-16
user leds: eth debug
[space 3] FPGA flash eeprom:
flash size: 16Mb (id: 0x14)
[space 4] timers:
uSTimeStampReg: 0xE678
WaituSReg: 0x0000
HM2Timeout: 0x0000
[space 6] LBP16 control/status:
packets received: all 11605, UDP 8276, bad 0
packets sent: all 5392, UDP 5368, bad 0
parse errors: 0, mem errors 0, write errors 0
error flags: 0x0000
debug LED ptr: 0x0008
scratch: 0x0000
[space 7] LBP16 info:
board name: 7I76E-16
LBP16 protocol version 3
board firmware version 17
IP address jumpers at boot: fixed 192.168.1.121
I successfully flashed "7i76e_7i76x1_7i74x1D.bit" from support files provided on mesa website.
Now, I try to run halrun with these commands:
Code:
loadrt hostmot2
Note: Using POSIX realtime
hm2: loading Mesa HostMot2 driver version 0.15
loadrt hm2_eth board_ip="192.168.1.121"
hm2_eth: loading Mesa AnyIO HostMot2 ethernet driver version 0.2
hm2_eth: 192.168.1.121: INFO: Hardware address (MAC): 00:60:1b:10:4a:99
hm2_eth: discovered 7I76E-16
hm2/hm2_7i76e.0: Low Level init 0.15
hm2/hm2_7i76e.0: Smart Serial Firmware Version 43
hm2/hm2_7i76e.0: No GTOC in sserial read globals
hm2/hm2_7i76e.0: Failed to read/setup the globals on hm2_7i76e.0.7i76.0.0
hm2/hm2_7i76e.0: Remote setup failure on instance 0
hm2/hm2_7i76e.0: failed to parse Module Descriptor 5
board fails HM2 registration
hm2_eth: in hm2_eth_reset
hm2_eth: rtapi_app_main: Invalid argument (-22)
<stdin>:2: waitpid failed /home/cnc/dev/linuxcnc/rip/bin/rtapi_app hm2_eth
<stdin>:2: /home/cnc/dev/linuxcnc/rip/bin/rtapi_app exited without becoming ready
<stdin>:2: insmod for hm2_eth failed, returned -1
I wonder what I'm doing wrong here? Is it even possible to run this in a VM or is phyiscal hardware required (even for testing purposes)?
After two days of research and multiple times of reinstalling everything... I hope to find some assitance here.
