Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Ernest L. Williams Jr." <[email protected]> · Sat, 19 Feb 2005 16:29:33 -0500

Hi,

I have been running vxWorks 6.0 and EPICS R3.14.7 for a couple of weeks
now.  Of course, EPICS is running in vxWorks 6.0 kernel space. I have
not experimented with the Real-Time Process (RTP) space yet.
There were very few changes to make; mainly due to the new GCC compiler.
I also had to modify "$(EPICS_BASE)/configure/*" to build the new
architecture/vxWorks combination.

I have encountered differences in the shell environment that the startup
scripts executes in -- versus the target shell.  This is a big
difference from the way things worked in vxWorks 5.5.1. 

Bad News: The mv2100 BSP is currently not supported in vxWorks 6.0.
          WRS says we will have to port that one on our own.

Good News: EPICS runs great so far.

Has anyone else tried vxWorks 6.0?

My setup:
Host: Linux (Now a supported WRS platform)
Target BSP: mv5100 (not modified except for EPICS recommended
INCLUDES_XXX_YYY)
Target hardware: MVME5110
EPICS: Release 3.14.7

Thanks,
Ernest L. Williams Jr.
SNS Control Systems Group
ORNL

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System