Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Tue, 29 May 2007 11:12:17 -0500

I've been working on a new release of drvIpac, converting it and the
drvTip810 CANbus driver (but not tyGSOctal) to use EPICS OSI and devLib
calls instead of the native vxWorks APIs. However I don't have access
to the hardware to test all the converted code, and I'd like to have
some confidence that I didn't break anything before I put out a numbered
release. I would be particularly interested to hear from anyone who
tries the drivers out on RTEMS (or even Linux if you have a fully
implemented version of devLib - I'm not sure if the Australian Light
Source's plug-in supports interrupts, which the Tip810 driver needs, but
the VIPC and TEWS IPAC carrier drivers should still work).
The converted code can be found in the CVS Snapshot for drvIpac at
http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/download/modules/ipac_cvs.tar.gz
This release *should* be source-level compatible with drvIpac carrier
and module drivers that are maintained externally, but I have made
changes to the type-names used in the drvIpac APIs so it would also be
good to hear from authors of such code about anything that I broke.

My thanks to the people who have sent me partial conversions of drvIpac
in the past, which I used as a starting point. My version goes beyond
all of those submissions however, and the code now compiles without
errors or warnings on all the EPICS platforms I've tried building it on
(yes, I even cleaned up the pesky 'strict-aliasing rules' warnings from
GCC 4.x). Not that that I'm aware of anyone who actually has a devLib
plug-in for Solaris or Darwin, but if you do...
Thanks in advance,
- Andrew
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System