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From: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai] Drivers for 4-channel CAN or EtherCAT
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To: david.butterworth@uqconnect.edu.au
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On 10/21/2012 08:19 PM, David Butterworth wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is anyone working on drivers for a 4-channel CAN card?  and what
> EtherCAT drivers are currently available?

I never heard of EtherCAT with CAN? It normally uses Ethernet network
devices. Or have I missed something?

> We're talking about using such hardware, so I might need to have a go
> myself...
> 
> I am assuming that Peak's Linux driver (non real-time) works with their
> 4 channel card.

Me too.

> Is there some problem that has prevented all 4 channels being supported
> in the current Xenomai peak-pci driver?

Not that I know of, apart from the missing code (so far the RTcan
"peak_pci" driver only supports up to 2 channels).

Wolfgang.