2foc 3.36, mc4plus 3.95, mc2plus 3.74, amc 2.8, 2foc-special 3.136

[valegagge]

This PR is related to robotology/icub-firmware#503 and robotology/icub-main#972.

The 2foc-special is useful for AMI demos when they don't need the overheating fault check.

cc @MSECode

[S-Dafarra]

Hi @valegagge, my two cents would be that it is better not to have duplicated 2foc FW. It can be difficult to maintain both, and I am afraid that in a not-so-far future we will simply forget what special means here.

During the last demos, we simply disabled the temperature sensors since it is:

• faster
• easier to switch back
• more evident that there has been a modification.

The only time in which we used the special FW, we burnt down a motor as soon as we got home, and during the demo it turned out it was not useful to check the temperature.

In short, I would suggest to simply drop that FW.

[valegagge]

Hi @valegagge, my two cents would be that it is better not to have duplicated 2foc FW. It can be difficult to maintain both, and I am afraid that in a not-so-far future we will simply forget what special means here.

During the last demos, we simply disabled the temperature sensors since it is:

• faster
• easier to switch back
• more evident that there has been a modification.

The only time in which we used the special FW, we burnt down a motor as soon as we got home, and during the demo it turned out it was not useful to check the temperature.

In short, I would suggest to simply drop that FW.

Hi @S-Dafarra ,
I prepared the 2foc-special fw because we agreed to provide you a fw for the demo. Do you remember that in the last PI we also prepared a script to install that fw in user-friendly way?

Of course if you no longer use it I'm very happy to remove from the repo for all the reasons you mentioned! 😄

After the merge of this PR, I'm going to purge the repo from all references to this FW. (From script also)

[marcoaccame]

Hi @valegagge, pls remember to change the firmware.info.xml file and then we can merge.

[valegagge]

Hi @valegagge, pls remember to change the firmware.info.xml file and then we can merge.

done here: valegagge@bd997c2

thanks!!!

cc @marcoaccame

[marcoaccame]

ok, thanks