Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

John K Munro Jr <[email protected]> · Sat, 10 Nov 2001 20:10:07 -0500

As part of the SNS collaboration, those of us here at ORNL using EPICS for
control systems applications are interested because we too are moving to use
of Linux as the standard OS for SNS global controls.  We followed the lead of
PSI in setting up a cross-compiler environment that allows us to develop EPICS
applications using the PowerPC (ppc603 and MVME2101 CPU) architecture.  This
is working fine for us so far.  We too have had discussions with WRS sales
people to tell them of our interest in moving to the Linux platform.

In answer to your question for contacts:
    1. Ernest L Williams or myself
    2. Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    3. 2
    4. #??? for 68K; #16662 for PowerPC

We too just want the BSPs, the libraries/headers, and GNU stuff...

Regards,
John Munro

Nick Rees wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are (like many people, I suspect) gradually transitioning from Solaris
> to Linux...

> Hence, the question is, how many sites are interested in transitioning to
> Linux, and would be willing to do this at a reduced cost with the
> possibility that all latest Tornado development suite would not be
> available, but the GNU toolchain and debugger would be? If you are
> interested, please can one person from each site send me:
>
> 1. Contact name
> 2. Site name
> 3. #VxWorks licenses
> 4. VxWorks license number
>
> The latter two are optional, but are may come in handy.
>
> I suspect nothing will come of it, but I felt that if we got a reasonable
> number of people responding, baybe WRS might notice.
>
> Also, if someone closer to the collaboration has already taken this up (or
> would like to), please let me know anything you have - I won't stand in
> your way :-).
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Nick Rees
>
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System