MULTISWITCH(9)

💖 MULTISWITCH(9) — the HAL component 💖

okay bestie, so this is multiswitch, a HAL component, and honestly? she's giving selector switch energy. What she does is toggle between a specified number of output bits. That's the whole vibe. Iconic, honestly. 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

loadrt multiswitch personality=P [cfg=N]

• cfg — bestie this is the important one. cfg should be a comma-separated list of sizes, for example cfg=2,4,6 would create 3 instances of 2, 4 and 6 bits respectively. 🫶

not me telling you to ignore the personality parameter 💀 — that one is auto-generated, so just leave her alone, she's doing her own thing.

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🦋 FUNCTIONS 🦋

• multiswitch.N — and girl, this requires a floating-point thread. no faking it, she needs the real thing.

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🌸 PINS 🌸

• multiswitch.N.up — bit in (default: false). She receives signal to toggle up. ⬆️
• multiswitch.N.down — bit in (default: false). She receives signal to toggle down. ⬇️
• multiswitch.N.bit-MM — bit out (MM=00..personality) (default: false). These are the output bits, and there are as many as her personality says. periodt. 💅

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💜 PARAMETERS 💜

• multiswitch.N.top-position — u32 rw. Number of positions. Like, how many stops on the ride. 🎡
• multiswitch.N.position — s32 rw. Current state (may be set in the HAL). So you can poke her from the HAL, she doesn't mind. 👑

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

ArcEye schooner30@tiscali.co.uk / Andy Pugh andy@bodgesoc.org

📜 LICENSE 📜

GPL

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lowkey the most important part: <rainbow>no cap, every single one of these options is real and every detail matters — don't come for me if you skip one</rainbow> 🌈

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and that's the whole page, bestie! 💖 this one's from the LinuxCNC Documentation, dated 2026-03-17, and she lives in section 9 of the manual, MULTISWITCH(9). slay, go toggle some bits, ily 🫶✨