Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:58:33 -0500

We need to get a new release of 3.14 out soon; I'm getting pressured

from more than one site, and there are enough R3.14.7 bugs already fixed

to make this worthwhile. At this point I think a release date in

mid-November is probably more important than what extra bug fixes or

features we put into it.

I am aware that in the short term Ralph will be far too busy with his

paternal responsibilities to do his usual HP-UX fixes, so my suggestion

is that 3.14.8 be announced as not supporting HP-UX, but we do a 3.14.9

as soon as Ralph is able to perform the necessary HP-UX magic.

Here's a list of features that I'm aware are pending or that could be

added before this release:

* Include Shifu Xu's real-time priority-based scheduling for Linux

(Posix?) and make enabling this a site-configuration option.

* Simulation Mode enhancements from Peter Denison (Diamond)
* Device Support eXtension Table: hardware address changes at runtime

In addition these are the entries in Mantis that we should look at:

54: makeBaseApp.pl -i should ask for app name, not just use IOC name
	Janet committed a fix for this, I'm revising it slightly.

111: non-preemptive clients disconnect if ca_poll() isnt called regularly
	APS has been running a Gateway with Ken Evans' fix for this
	problem for 6 months.

179: R3.14.7 does not build with vxWorks 6.0
	This looks like it's been fixed, just not marked as such.

184: On a powerPC IOC during iocInit, a crash may occur during calls to

errlog functions

	This looks like it's been fixed, just not marked as such.
	Entries 182 and 188 may be duplicates of this.

182: strange behavior of outRoutine() in osdStdio.c associated with

crash for PPC targets.

188: errlogPrintf for vxWorks cause crash

200: errlogPrintf shouldnt be called from the core routines used to

implement it

216: Build fails with gcc 4 due to missing forward class declarartions
	Patch provided in report, should be a quick fix.

Jeff, can you comment on the status of 111, 179 and 216.
Marty, can you look at 182, 184 and 188 and comment.

Have I missed anything?

I would appreciate feedback on whether to incorporate my DSXT work into

this release or not (it's currently available on the main trunk).

Suggested Dates:
Features and Mantis fixes committed on or before November 4th
Platform testing during the week of November 7th-11th
Final release on November 14/15th.

If you have any issues with these dates please speak up.

- Andrew
--
English probably arose from Normans trying to pick up Saxon girls.

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System