5i25 + 7i73

is probably close to what you want
(assuming you have a -16 card)

Yes, I have a -16 card.
7i44 on P2 is ok, but 7i47 is not what I intended.

I want to use as much steppers on the 7i47 as possible (I read about 12 steppers).
Encoders are a later option.
At start I want to drive steppers with the 7i47, use analog channels of a 7i33 for overwrite knobs and 8x8 keypad on each 7i33 for keyboard and GPIO on 7i33 should be fast enuf for endstops or so.

PWM - yes I want pwm, but I don't know, where it will be best located.

When I buy encoders (I plan about magnetic absolute encoders with serial interface), I'll probabely have to buy another daughter for the 5i24 ...

What do you think?

Argh - 400 bucks wasted and same result

I tested the bitfile 5i24_16_sssvst8_1_5_7i47.bit
7i47 and 7i44 connected and powered with separate power and connected 7i73 on channel 0 and channel 1

hal documentation says, that config options for 7i44 could be found in mesa doc - did not find anything in there.
So i tried the same commandline as with 5i25 first the output from mesaflash


next the output from loadrt hm2_pci:


and last the output from show pin:


no smartserial or any pin of a 7i73-card found.

I additionally searched the forum for 7i44, but it looks like other users needed a bitfile, but no one asked for hal config options. What am i missing?

P.S.: the 7i73 cards did not change red led
P.P.S.: i discovered the --serial option for mesaflash. Output is:

The mesaflash listing is not for the 5i24_16_sssvst8_1_5_7i47.bit bitfile
did you do a --reload before testing?

Hi,

I was not sure, so I started the box again and issued a reload from fallback ...
... and get the same result.
So yes - I did a reload before testing.
... and before you ask: I have not tried another bitfile for the 5i24

Do I need to write the bitfile in primary memory to get it working?

P.S. to find the way back to this forum-section:
I created an xml-file with mesaflash and copied the output from --readhmid into a pin-file.
Then I created a directory called "hostmot2-firmware-5i24" at /usr/share/doc and copied the xml-file to /lib/firmware/hm2/5i24 ...
... but when I select the 5i24 entry in pncconf, it traps with this error: What else do I have to do, to get pncconf working?

Can you try this bitfile?

freeby.mesanet.com/5i24_16_sssvst8_5_1_7i47.bit

sudo mesaflash --device 5i24 --write 5i24_16_sssvst8_5_1_7i47.bit
sudo mesaflash --device 5i24 --reload
sudo mesaflash --device 5i24 --readhmid > pinout.txt

mesaflash says: invalid bitfile header

what does
md5sum 5i24_16_sssvst8_5_1_7i47.bit
print?

I get
md5sum 5i24_16_sssvst8_5_1_7i47.bit
bf586d72aae6fac788f7ff95e920d912 5i24_16_sssvst8_5_1_7i47.bit

Edit: I missed the leading "b" in the first copy/paste

did you noticed, that the file, you linked has double t extension?
Might be a different file ...

Sorry, copy paste error (there is no .bitt file so you probably have a 0 length file)

freeby.mesanet.com/5i24_16_sssvst8_5_1_7i47.bit

No, the file was not empty. But I did not look into it or checked size ...
... file contained html error message 404

So the right file looks quite better. I don't want muxed functions.


But ... stil no smart serial success.