On Sunday 21 June 2020 05:36:44 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Anno domini 2020 Sun, 21 Jun 04:39:42 -0400 > > Gene Heskett scripsit: > > On Sunday 21 June 2020 04:11:05 deloptes wrote: > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Which version of tde? > > > > > > The PB and the DEV (14.1) on raspbian and debian > > > > > > > I rather like its ability to manage multiple workspaces, and my > > > > current gui on the rpi4, LXDE, does a poor job of that, not > > > > remembering a hard to configure 4 pane setup over a reboot, its > > > > easier to ssh -Y into it several times when building LinuxCNC > > > > .deb's from scratch. From other machines with more comfortable > > > > seating. I use R14.0.8 on two machines here, but not on the > > > > rpi4. It is a hair hard on latency's though, a point where the > > > > pi's can use all the help they can get since there is not a port > > > > of RTAI to the armhf's. > > > > > > I don't have CNC and can't comment. The kernel is an issue as the > > > debian kernel did not work (buster) - I am not sure if it now > > > works though. > > > > The debian version of u-boot is not compatible with the pi's boot > > loader for armhf. Never has been to my knowledge. > > > > The one time I tried the netinstall, which installs grub and an > > arm64 kernel, it booted nicely but networking was broken. > > > > Basicly if you want debian on a pi you must use the raspbian flavor, > > it Just Works, with the usual putzing with networking of course if > > running a host file based network which I am. > > Hi Gene! > > Just this week I tried to get arm64 of devuan running on a RPi3B. > While almost everything worked and it booted really fast (~ 5 sec. > from powerup to userland) I was not quite satisfied. To be more > precise, the official 5.XX kernel did not boot, the official hardware > support for the vidocore is broken etc., so I think arm64 not working > is not a devuan/debian issue but also present upstream. The BSDs work > on the PI4, too, but with the same problems. The armhf/lf work like a > charm. Now I'm running the same version of devuan armlf for RPI1 on > all of my RPIs, that means only keeping one image up to date. Looks > like RPI is entering the same problematic field like C64 vs. C128 :) > > Oh, the last RTAI patch I saw was for kernel 3.XX, I think, and > nothing since then. Worked fine. RT-PREEMPT is pestilence on my > systems (not only RPi) > > Nik But its needed to get the lower latencies that machine control demand. For the rpi4b I cajoled raspbian out of a src file only, no support preempt-rt kernel, rebuilt it several times as it defaults to building a whole bunch of stuff that has never been in the same room with a pi, then to install it I cherry picked the pi stuff, tarballed it into about a 30 meg file, and unpacked that over the top of the /booot on the card, replaceing the raspbian stuff, fixed the hard coded drive identifiers and configured my network, all in a card reader. That was before I had the heart attack last fall and spent much of the winter in and out of the cath-lab at WVU/Ruby in Morgantown, getting stents installed here and there, not all in my heart, but culminating in a new aortic valve installed in January, and one of the stents in my ticker clogged up and had to be replaced 2 weeks back. Being a long term DM-II has caught up with me, and I'm running out of time at 85, but that pi4 is still running that kernel and my big lathe quite nicely. The main diff is that all the overlay stuff that clutters up the debian "/boot" file system has been moved to a subdir in /boot for the pi's. Gotta be different stuff. Armbian works fine on the hardkernel stuff, rock64-pro etc, doesn't work in the pi's for the same reason. But hardkernel folks simply ignore any requests for realtime support. Their way or the highway. Them, and the camel that rode in on them. That r-pi4b has two bigger ssd's plugged in via usb3 adapters, and I do all the devel work on them so a 64G sd card only gets write abused by apt, keeping the rest of the system up to date. I had to get rid of the swap file on the sd card as it wasn't big enough to build LinuxCNC on a 2G pi, making a swap partition on one of the ssd's, so that write abuse of the u-sd is removed. Then tiger direct had a sale on rebuilt 650 watt cyberpower UPS's at $40, w/free ship, looked brand new to me, so it doesn't even get rebooted by a local power failure since there's a 20kw nat gas fired generator just outside the back door thats up and carrying the whole place, AC and all in 5 or 6 seconds. I see notes in the log that its on standby for 30 secs now and then. Shrug. Thanks deloptes. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. 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