Merge pull request #3035 from sensille/litehm2-2.9

litehm2 support

Author: andypugh

docs/man/man9/hm2_eth.9

@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ As shipped, the board address is 192.168.1.121.
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 
 hm2_eth is a device driver that interfaces Mesa's ethernet based Anything I/O boards (with the HostMot2 firmware) to the LinuxCNC HAL.
-The supported boards are: 7I76E, 7I80DB, 7I80HD, 7I92, 7I93, 7I94, 7I95, 7I96, 7I96S, 7I97, 7I98.
+The supported boards are: 7I76E, 7I80DB, 7I80HD, 7I92, 7I93, 7I94, 7I95, 7I96, 7I96S, 7I97, 7I98. It also supports boards with the
+litehm2 firmware (https://github.com/sensille/litehm2).
 The board must have its firmware loaded on the board by the mesaflash(1) program.
 
 hm2_eth is only available when LinuxCNC is configured with "uspace" realtime.

docs/man/man9/hostmot2.9

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ The identifier consists of the last 4 digits of the board serial number, which i
 This will make configs less portable, but does mean that boards can be re-connected less carefully.
 
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-hostmot2 is a device driver that interfaces the Mesa HostMot2 firmware to the LinuxCNC HAL.
+hostmot2 is a device driver that interfaces the Mesa or litehm2 HostMot2 firmware to the LinuxCNC HAL.
 This driver by itself does nothing, the boards that actually run the firmware require their own drivers before anything can happen.
 Currently drivers are available for PCI, Ethernet, SPI and EPP interfaced cards.
 

docs/src/config/integrator-concepts.adoc

@@ -278,4 +278,22 @@ button to completely turn off your computer. The RTAI group has been
 improving this in recent releases, so your LinuxCNC system may shut off by
 itself after all.
 
+== Computer/Machine Interface Hardware Options
+
+=== litehm2/rv901t
+
+Litehm2 is a board-agnostic port of the HostMot2 FPGA firmware. The first
+board it supports is the linsn rv901t, which was originally built as a LED
+controller board, but due to the available I/O it is well suited to act as
+a machine controller. It offers around 80 5V-buffered I/O ports and can
+switch between all input and all output. it is also easily modified to split
+the ports half/half between input and output. The rv901t interfaces to the
+computer via Gigabit or 100Mbit Ethernet.
+
+Litehm2 is based on the LiteX framework which supports a wide range of
+FPGA boards. Currently only the rv901t is supported, but support for more
+boards is under development.
+
+More information can be found at https://github.com/sensille/litehm2.
+
 // vim: set syntax=asciidoc:

src/hal/drivers/mesa-hostmot2/hostmot2.c

@@ -1811,6 +1811,8 @@ void rtapi_app_exit(void) {
 
 // this pushes our idea of what things are like into the FPGA's poor little mind
 void hm2_force_write(hostmot2_t *hm2) {
+    if (hm2->llio->set_force_enqueue != NULL)
+        hm2->llio->set_force_enqueue(hm2->llio, 1);
     hm2_watchdog_force_write(hm2);
     hm2_ioport_force_write(hm2);
     hm2_encoder_force_write(hm2);
@@ -1830,5 +1832,7 @@ void hm2_force_write(hostmot2_t *hm2) {
     // the IO Port pin directions is set appropriately.
     hm2_ssr_force_write(hm2);
     hm2_outm_force_write(hm2);
+    if (hm2->llio->set_force_enqueue != NULL)
+        hm2->llio->set_force_enqueue(hm2->llio, 0);
 }