So I picked up a DE10 Nano to do some testing on. As I explained in a previous thread, a remote GUI running on a different CPU is the intended goal with the DE10-Nano handling MK and the hardware headless as I'm sure most would intend it's use. I'm having all sorts of issues with just about everything MachineKit but this I got somewhere with.
I need to work on making an interface board to get useable I/O out of this thing for my intended purpose. I found the "DE10-Nano/mksocfpga_stretch_machinekit_4.9.76-2018-05-26-de10_nano_desktop_sd.img" and got that setup with HDMI support and LXqt. The thought is that If I can get a working GUI setup going with a more or less generic bitfile I can basically breadboard the DE10-Nano and use HalShow and a few other LinuxCNC tools to verify the circuits. I ran into a couple of issues and there's some things I'm unsure of.... I tried what sounded like a more ideal bitimage but the HDMI output was no good unless I used the /lib/firmware/socfpga/DE10_Nano_FB_Cramps.3x24_cap.rbf bitimage. I couldn't find info on what the pin designations for this image are, I'm not really up to snuff on the 3D-printer/CRAMPS thing. I'm not really sure of how to create my own bitfile either especially if it's tied to the HDMI out. I did load MK and the only stock config I could get to load was the something "SOC-no-fw-load" config. I assume this does not reprogram the FPGA on start since the "fpgaload_on_boot 1" variable is set to program the FPGA on boot? Since I have no hardware to attach I can't really say whether the I/O was actually doing anything although I guess I would expect following errors or something if it wasn't while I was jogging around. I also couldn't start Halshow from the Axis GUI, just didn't open. It'd be great if somebody could point me in the right direction as to how I can either setup my own hardware bitfile or use a rather generic one that I can reference pin designations too. Really I'm just looking to breadboard an encoder interface and level shifting circuits and get some feedback from MK as to how the GPIO is responding at this point. -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: https://github.com/machinekit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Machinekit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
