[Caml-list] OCaml CAN support (controller area network)

[Caml-list] OCaml CAN support (controller area network)

[Markus Weißmann]

Hello,

on Linux there is support for a socket family "PF_CAN" for the CAN bus 
(controller area network bus) [1].
I was wondering if anyone is/was working on
1) support for PF_CAN for the standard Unix socket in OCaml (see 
example code on [2])
2) some kind of OCaml CAN library/separate bindings for aforementioned 
socket domain
3) an OCaml library/tool on top of CAN, e.g. some CAN controller, a 
DeviceNET or CANOpen library
and of course if 1) would be an acceptable patch for the standard 
library or if it would be considered "too exotic", given that there 
aren't many domains supported by the OCaml/Unix socket right now ('only' 
PF_UNIX, PF_INET and PF_INET6).

Best regards
Markus

[1] https://gitorious.org/linux-can/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SocketCAN

-- 
Markus Weißmann, M.Sc.
Technische Universität München
Institut für Informatik
Boltzmannstr. 3
D-85748 Garching
Germany
http://wwwknoll.in.tum.de/

Re: [Caml-list] OCaml CAN support (controller area network)

[Jeremie Dimino]

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I wrote stubs for using CAN sockets a long time ago. We used it for the
control system of a robot. The code is here:


http://sourceforge.net/p/krobot/krobot/ci/master/tree/info/control2011/src/can/

and the definition of CAN frames is in this file:


http://sourceforge.net/p/krobot/krobot/ci/master/tree/info/control2011/src/lib/krobot_can.mli

It should be easy to extract the code from the project if you want to reuse
it.

Regards
Jeremie


On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Markus Weißmann <
markus.weissmann@in.tum.de> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> on Linux there is support for a socket family "PF_CAN" for the CAN bus
> (controller area network bus) [1].
> I was wondering if anyone is/was working on
> 1) support for PF_CAN for the standard Unix socket in OCaml (see example
> code on [2])
> 2) some kind of OCaml CAN library/separate bindings for aforementioned
> socket domain
> 3) an OCaml library/tool on top of CAN, e.g. some CAN controller, a
> DeviceNET or CANOpen library
> and of course if 1) would be an acceptable patch for the standard library
> or if it would be considered "too exotic", given that there aren't many
> domains supported by the OCaml/Unix socket right now ('only' PF_UNIX,
> PF_INET and PF_INET6).
>
> Best regards
> Markus
>
> [1] https://gitorious.org/linux-can/
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SocketCAN
>
> --
> Markus Weißmann, M.Sc.
> Technische Universität München
> Institut für Informatik
> Boltzmannstr. 3
> D-85748 Garching
> Germany
> http://wwwknoll.in.tum.de/
>
>
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-- 
Jeremie

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