[etherlab-dev] EtherCAT-Master on ARM9 using RTAI/Xenomai

[Stefan Schramm]

Hi,

I tried running the master on an AT91 CPU using RTAI or Xenomai. The 
system freezes after the RT task was started. If I used the normal Linux 
timers it worked. The reason is that the macros for reading an writing 
the EC datagrams defined in ecrt.h (e.g. EC_WRITE_U16) may result to 
unaligned memory access. On ARM CPUs this causes an exception, which 
normally is catched by the Linux kernel. This does not work with RTAI or 
Xenomai.

I attached a patch which solves the problem. If the master is running on 
an ARM CPU I changed the macros. 16, 32 and 64 bit operations are 
splitted in multiple 8 bit accesses.

I tested it with kernel 2.6.20.21 and RTAI 3.7. and with kernel 2.6.30.9 
using Xenomai 2.4.9.1.

Best regards

Stefan
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