doc/copcican_comedi_howto.txt
author Christian Taedcke <hacking@taedcke.com>
Tue, 08 Nov 2011 08:27:29 +0000
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CHANGED: - The return values of VCI_ResetCan() and VCI_StartCan() are logged in case of an error.
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HOW TO configure CanFestival for a CO-PCICAN card for COMEDI in the kernel (optionally with Xenomai):
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pre-actions:
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- install the CO-PCICAN card
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- install and load COMEDI and the corresponding driver co_pcican.ko
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  (COMEDI sources are expected in /usr/src/comedi)
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- optionally: install the Xenomai package
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  (Xenomai sources are expected in /usr/xenomai)
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- unpack the package to your target (if not already done)
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- perform package configuration:
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  sh ./configure --can=copcican_comedi --timers=kernel --kerneldir='/lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build'
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  optionally: use --timers=kernel_xeno for the realtime Xenomai timer functions
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- patch the sed "s:-I:-I$(src)/:g" statement to
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    's:-I../..:-I/canopeninstalldir:g' in drivers/unix/Makefile
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    's:-I..:-I/canopeninstalldir:g'    in src/Makefile
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  The original statement did not run on my computer !
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- build the CanFestival Unix library:
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  cd drivers/unix
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  make
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- build the CanFestival library:
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  cd src
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  make
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  make install
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- build the CO-PCICAN driver interface:
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  cd drivers/can_copcican_comedi
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  make
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  make install
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- build the example application (not for Xenomai):
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  cd examples/test_copcican_comedi
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  make
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  make install
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Run test_copcican_comedi with the insert.sh script to see it works...
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For Xenomai please use the example /usr/src/scale-rt-canopendemo of the SCALE-RT distribution.
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Copyright (C) 2010 Cosateq GmbH & Co.KG
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              http://www.cosateq.com/
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              http://www.scale-rt.com/
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