[ag-automation] configuration concept for fieldbus stack

Robert Schwebel r.schwebel at pengutronix.de
Tue Jul 10 17:20:27 CEST 2007


On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 10:45:51AM +0200, Dieter Hess wrote:
> here are a general XML-schema for a configuration of a fddi driver, a
> example for modbus and a description of the modbus profile.

One more comment about the documentation:

> > The parts of the data must be read or written cyclic, that means in
> > regular time intervals. This data contains the process data.

Modbus is not necessarily cyclic. It should be the choice of the
application to trigger a TPU transfer in a cyclic way or not, shouldn't
it?

Regards,
Robert Schwebel
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