FW: EMC/RTLinux running under Debian.

[xfesty <xfesty-at-computeraddictions.com.au>]

Hey there.

For any interested in my development on the Debian distrib ("BDI like"), and
documentation relating compiling - see the email below.  It was a reply to a
email Ray Henry sent me, but its probably of interest to others on the list.

Ray also informed me that the documentation I'll be sending him
(installation on potato, general compile time issues, etc...) will be going
in the Handbook.

Cheers

Ryan

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From: xfesty <xfesty-at-computeraddictions.com.au>
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 01:03:57 +1000
To: Ray Henry <rehenry-at-up.net>
Subject: Re: EMC/RTLinux running under Debian.

G'day.

Heh, sorry, I've been completely inactive lately regarding EMC:  I managed
to get it running beautifully on a Debian Potato (2.2) machine a few weeks
ago, and I wrote up a fair bit of documentation on how I achieved this; off
memory, I made some .deb files as well, with dependencies for things like
tcl-dev etc...  On a fresh Debian install, it seemed to go on fine.  (I did
need to grab one woody package though that wasn't in potato's apt sources -
tclx8.2-dev I think.  Can't remember).

However, I haven't been home the past ~2 weeks - I've been ~1000km away on
work at Sydney - I'm from Adelaide.  (In Australia for you non-Aussies)

The guy who got me involved with this is also on the list - "Illya".  I used
to work for him a while ago, we're reasonably good friends and I still do
stuff occasionally for him.  He's been running EMC on the Debian box and
says its running great - BDI had a few issues which this doesn't, and its
running a million times faster.

I'm home in about a week - first thing I plan to do is to fix up the
documentation, get some packages happening, and submit them to who needs
them, and then get it all running on woody (2.4).

I plan to then get an alternative to the BDI up and cranking.  If all goes
well, it should be done within 2 weeks or so.  Unfortunately I haven't got
any of this stuff with me at the moment.  I created a basic CD which would
restore an image to the hard drive, then on startup there was an init script
that would run things to configure the network card/x windows - but this was
only a temporary crude solution.

Hope this is okay... Not sure how soon you were going to print the handbook
:(  I wrote some extensive documentation on general compile
problems+solutions as well, which may be of interest.. But again, you
probably wont be able to get it for another fortnight or so.

- Ryan

(You think its a good idea FW:'ing this email to the list, so others know?)

On 5/6/02 12:10 AM, "Ray Henry" <rehenry-at-up.net> spoke these words:

> 
> Ryan
> 
> How you coming along on the Debian EMC project?  I'd like to include a
> description of it in the Handbook.
> 
> Also I would not be at all afraid of a 2.2 release.  There is still a lot of
> demand for that version of the BDI.  Also if you need a North Americian
> burner/distributor I'd be happy to do that as well.
> 
> Ray Henry
> 
> 
> On Friday 17 May 2002 00:06, you wrote:
> <s>
>> First step for me will be making up some deb packages with dependencies,
>> and throwing them up somewhere where current debian users on this list can
>> add them to their sources.conf and try apt-get'ing it.  (With the intent of
>> working out any installation/dependency bugs).
>> 
>> Once everything's all worked out, I'll work on getting this all installed
>> from a CD.  I'll try and make the installler as simple as possible.
> <s>
>> At the moment the debian (potato) machine I'm working on is 2.2 based, but
>> I'll definitely be looking at 2.4 after this.  Thanks... I'm still quite
>> new to EMC/RT - any pointers are great :)
>> 
>> - Ryan
> 

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