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ds:comedi [2015/08/06 11:12]
tmilosic
ds:comedi [2015/08/06 11:45]
tmilosic
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 [The following assumes you're in a maintenance chroot and are\\ [The following assumes you're in a maintenance chroot and are\\
-installing the modules directly to the diskless system.]+installing the modules directly to the diskless system.\\ 
 +If you want to build and install the drivers to a different \\ 
 +directory, for example '/srv/diskless/fec/arch/L866_64/lib/<kernel-version>/'\\ 
 +you have to specify --with-modulesdir=<DIR>]
  
 Assembling the Makefile for 64-bit Linux 3.10.82-rt89 with RT preempt patch Assembling the Makefile for 64-bit Linux 3.10.82-rt89 with RT preempt patch
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   make install   make install
 +
 +This will install the modules to
 +
 +  /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/...
 +  
 +where kernel-version is 3.10.82-rt89 in this example.
  
  
 === Linux In-Tree Comedi Support === === Linux In-Tree Comedi Support ===
  
-Comedi and available drivers are integrated into the Linux kernel since 2.6.30\\ +Comedi and available drivers are also integrated into the Linux kernel \\ 
-located in the experimental staging tree.\\+since 2.6.30 located in the experimental staging tree.\\ 
 + 
 +This might be the best choice unless the kernel version of choice\\ 
 +lacks required hardware support or contains bugs stopping its use.\\ 
 +In that case we should use the out-of-tree Git version as described above.\\
  
 To enable Comedi and build the //comedi// module, setup the \\ To enable Comedi and build the //comedi// module, setup the \\
ds/comedi.txt · Last modified: 2015/08/06 16:07 by tmilosic