[etherlab-dev] Multiple mailbox protocols and other issues

Graeme Foot Graeme.Foot at touchcut.com
Tue Feb 3 01:37:53 CET 2015


From: etherlab-dev [mailto:etherlab-dev-bounces at etherlab.org] On Behalf Of Gavin Lambert
> On 2 February 2015 20:18, quoth Knud Baastrup:
> > 16_improved_ethercat_rescan_performance.patch:
> > The SII data and PDOs will now be stored when the EtherCAT master is 
> > in
> its
> > operation phase. The stored SII data and PDOs will be detached from 
> > the slaves prior to a scanning and re-attached during the scanning 
> > without the need to fetch the SII data and PDOs once again. The SII 
> > data and PDOs will however only be stored if the slave have a serial 
> > number defined as this serial number will be used when re-attaching the SII data and PDOs.
>
> Ooh, thanks for that one.  That's one of the performance holes that I was planning on investigating myself soonish.
>


Hi,

None of my modules seem to have serial numbers (Beckhoff IO and yaskawa amps), or is that a bug that's got a patch?  I'm running the original 1.5.2 (+ misc patches).

G.



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