On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 12:16 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> Here at Pocket NC we locked on an old version of machinekit running the 3.8
> kernel when we launched our machine a couple years ago. It runs on the
> Beaglebone Black. I only recently came onboard and have been trying to get
> up to speed with the configuration while wrangling different pieces of
> software together to get a web interface going on the machine. It all works
> on the old version of machinekit. I am working on upgrading to a newer
> version of machinekit and am running into problems.
>
> When I try the latest 3.8 image built for the BBB I run into problems with
> the Xenomai kernel: https://github.com/machinekit/machinekit/issues/1332
>
> Ideally, we could make the jump to the latest 4.14 kernel image, but I'm
> unsure what changes need to be made. Kernel 4.14 uses U-boot for loading
> overlays, so I've added our device tree overlay to /boot/uEnv.txt to load it
> at boot. In the old setup, there is a setup.bridge.sh file that loads the
> overlays and does some checks for analog pins and pru control files. I've
> commented all of that out, but I'm not sure what should replace them or if I
> even need to (I've attached the current state of the file). Right now when I
> try to start machinekit I get "rtapi_app_main(hal_pru_generic): -1 Operation
> not permitted". I'm not sure where to go from here. I've attached the files
> that I think are pertinent (which are the only changes that I've made to the
> whole configuration, which is here: https://github.com/PocketNC/pocketnc).
> Any help you can offer is appreciated!

Is the pru overlay loading??? Double check with:

sudo /opt/scripts/tools/version.sh

PS, Alexander Rössler is having better luck with the v4.14.x-ti-rt vs
v4.14.x-bone-rt

There's a test image here:

https://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-12-12/stretch-machinekit/

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
https://rcn-ee.com/

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