Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andy Foster <[email protected]> · Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:28:35 +0100 (BST)

Hi Bill,

I haven't used the Xycom 9660 with a TIP-810 myself so it's
difficult for me to diagnose the problem.

I'll send you a newer version of the Xycom 9660 code which has
been modified for use with RTEMS under 3.14 by Stephanie Allison at SLAC.
It should also work under vxWorks. Please give that a go.

Do you know if the code is hanging in the 9660 driver or in the
TIP-810 driver or device support? Does the TIP-810 use interrupts,
if so, that might be a place to look?

If you are getting through the calls to:
ipacAddCarrier &xy9660, "<base addr>"
and the "create" call for the TIP-810 I guess you are,
at least, finding the card at your base address.

I think the way I'd debug this is by putting in some printf's in
the Xycom-9660/TIP-810 driver and TIP-810 device support functions
and see where it gets to before hanging.

I'll be interested to hear what you find!

Cheers,

Andy

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, wtw00992 wrote:

> Greetings (from sleepless in L.I.)
>
> I am trying to use a TIP-810 with a Xycom 9660.  I followed the instructions
> from Andy Fosters site at OSL..
>
> Things looked ok when I did my make but the processor hung up at
> intitialization..
>
> I didnt copy all of the files drvIpac.dbd files  and header files from the
> xycom-1.0 dir over to  drvIpac, as  they seem to be older versions that what
> I have in my drvIpac <support top>,  I did a diff and didnt see any
> differences in the .dbd, but saw some in one of the header files...
>
> I was wondering if  there was an update to the xycom 9660 files.. or perhaps
> a better way to do this.. by making a completely separate <support top> for
> the xycom.
>
>
> I am presupposing that some body out there has used the TIP810 with this
> board... one of our subsytems purchased it and I would like to get it to
> work, eventually with both a TIP 810 and an IP-OCTAL 232.. but certainly
> with the TIP 810.
>
>
> Thanks in advance for your comments.
>
>
> Bill Waggoner
> STAR
> BNL/Upton NY
> or
> Creighton Univ/Omaha NE
>
>

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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