Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Tue, 23 Oct 2001 20:10:24 -0500

Hi Geoff,

Geoff Savage wrote:
> 
> We are looking into running a linux based application on an i386
> embedded processor.  Has any one done this?  We are having problems
> accessing the VME back plane.  Is there a good driver for the universe
> chip that works with a 2.4 kernel?

There are several Universe drivers available, but I've not used any of
them yet so I can't comment directly.  I have linux running on an
MVME2100, but no VME interface for it yet.  This page from CERN gives the
most comprehensive list of drivers that I've seen:

http://rd13doc.cern.ch/Atlas/Notes/154/Note154-55.html

You might want to look at the rest of the report that page comes from too
(Top button and scroll down), or at least the Appendix on Bus Error
handling - it sounds like this might cause a problem on x86 boards without
some kernel hacking.

- Andrew
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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