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Subject: Re: [Xenomai] Xenomai, rtnet and ethercat
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To: Franz Engel <franz_lambert_engel@yahoo.de>
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On 05/25/2013 12:57 PM, Franz Engel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have to connect my realtime xenomai system with an lasertracker. The tracker is using ethercat. Has somebody experiences to do this? I would like to use rtnet as realtime stack. Is it possible to use an ethercat master with rtnet driver? Or is there a realtime ethercat master available?
>
> I found the following Ethercat projects (but I think they have no ethercat capables):
> http://soem.berlios.de/
> http://etherlab.org/en/ethercat/index.php

Read the licensing terms carefully, last time I looked, the EtherCAT 
license was not compatible with open licenses like GPL (see 
https://mail.gna.org/public/xenomai-help/2009-10/msg00074.html)


Regards

Anders Blomdell