Re: [Emc-users] Ethernet I/O

[Jon E. <el...@pi...>]

Mark Pictor wrote:
> --- "Peter C. Wallace" <pc...@me...> wrote:
> 
> 
>>For a parallel port replacement Ethernet, maybe a thing to
>>consider is just a 
>>single point to point link to the (multi axis) endpoint and some
>>very simple 
>>master slave protocol. The slave would get a packet, unpack to
>>hardware 
>>registers, and echo a new packet or return data.
>>
> 
> 
> I don't think RTnet is too complicated.


But, if we want RTnet to communicate with a low-level protocol 
converter running on an Atmel AT91SAM7X processor, then we need 
an RTnet driver for that platform, too.  I don't think that 
exists, and have NO IDEA what would be involved in such a port. 
  Might be easy, might not.

Jon