Thread: Documentation on the RoboRIO HAL
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Re: Documentation on the RoboRIO HAL
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Originally Posted by fsilberberg View Post
We don't have any official documentation on the HAL. Your best bet is to take a look at the source for C++ and see how it interacts with the HAL. If you have questions, you can send me a message, I'd be happy to help. It can definitely be confusing to look at.
Thanks. I'll definitely take a look into that. It will most likely be a summer project, but figured I could get started work on it now. When the season is over ill probably borrow one of our RoboRIOs to see if mono will even run on it, and if it will run fast enough on it.

One thing I remember reading is that the OS on the RoboRIO is softFP. Is that true? Seems like that would cause performance issues, even with the current languages.
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