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hubo / hubo-ach

Low level controller for the Hubo 2 and Hubo 2+ platforms designed by Daniel M. Lofaro. The system is based on the IPC called ACH by Neil Dantam and Mike Stilman.
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Should not bundle CAN drivers #72

Open ndantam opened 11 years ago

ndantam commented 11 years ago

These do not belong in this repo. Links to vendor websites / out-of-tree drivers in the README or INSTALL file would be better.

thedancomplex commented 11 years ago

I include them because I do not trust venders to keep the versions that we need available. I can post them on a website we control but it is purely because it is tested with 7.7 and 7.8 and I want to make sure things keep on working.

-Dan

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Neil T. Dantam notifications@github.comwrote:

These do not belong in this repo. Links to vendor websites / out-of-tree drivers in the README or INSTALL file would be better.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/hubo/hubo-ach/issues/72 .

Daniel M. Lofaro Ph.D Assistant Professor, George Mason University Electrical and Computer Engineering Department DARPA Robot Challenge Track-A Team DRC-Hubo Researcher e: dan@danLofaro.com w: http://danLofaro.com http://danlofaro.com/

ndantam commented 11 years ago

hubo-ach really just needs socketcan from the kernel (which should be supported forever, based on Linux kernel policy). That fact that some people use the PCAN driver for socketcan is almost incidental.

I think putting driver tarballs on a separate website is both reasonable and better.