Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Tue, 22 May 2007 09:50:44 -0500

Hi Eric,
Eric Williams wrote:

Can someone list for me the basic steps needed to add a new target
architecture to the EPICS base build system? I'm not quite clear on
which configuration files need to be added or modified to get this started.

There is a page on the EPICS Wiki that discusses exactly this:
http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/wiki/index.php/How_To_Port_EPICS_to_a_new_OS/Architecture
It is fairly recent so it shouldn't be too inaccurate - the overall
approach is certainly the same, although there now may be a bit more
libCom/osi/os stuff to do relating to endian conversions than there was
when I wrote it. Please let me know what if anything needs changing in
the document.
On a related note, is anyone already working on porting the EPICS IOC to
the AVR32 architecture?

I've not hear of anyone working on that - it's a completely new CPU
architecture from what I read on Wikipedia. If you get it working,
please send me the changes and I'll make sure they get into CVS and the
next release of Base. What OS will you be using?
- Andrew
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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