Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Ralph Lange <[email protected]> · Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:20:06 -0600 (CST)

  >> Is it now S.O.P. to boot operational IOC's from the vxWorks files that are
  >> in the  ~vw/tornado101  subdirectory,  and not those under <top> ?  Did we
  >> forget a 'switch' in the build?

  > It is T.R.O.P (The Recommended Operating Practice), although you have to
  > manually ensure that the IOC is booting from the same version of Tornado
  > (1.0.1, 2.0 etc.) that the software was built for (usually not a problem).

As some sites even have their operational kernels on a (or multiple)
different server(s) on a different network in a different place and boot
in a different way (e.g. using bootp / tftp), the S.O.P. is actually
B.Y.O.K. (Boot Your Own Kernel).

Ralph

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System