[Emc-developers] Still using RTAI-only hardware drivers? (STG, Motenc, VTI, EVOREG, AX5214H, Opto22 AC5, pci_8255, PCL720, Pluto-P)

[Luca T. <lu...@ai...>]

Hi all,

We would like to find out who still depends on the drivers that only 
build for RTAI kernels. These are all legacy ISA/PCI/parallel-port cards 
from the early 2000s:

- Servo-to-Go (hal_stg)
- Motenc (hal_motenc)
- Vigilant VTI (hal_vti)
- Siemens EVOREG (hal_evoreg)
- Axiom AX5214H (hal_ax5214h)
- Opto22 AC5 (opto_ac5)
- pci_8255
- Advantech PCL720 (pcl720)
- Pluto-P FPGA servo/stepper (pluto_servo, pluto_step)

If you run any of these on an RTAI build of LinuxCNC, please reply and 
say which one.

Note: the Pluto-P drivers could be made to work on normal preempt-rt 
(uspace) builds with modest effort, so if you have Pluto-P hardware and 
would test it, definitely speak up.

Background: https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/issues/4505