Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

David Kline <[email protected]> · Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:02:31 -0500

mauro,
what i'm doing for the ebrick is to build an epics application on a host
with the native compiler, then copy it to the target

ioc. both host (full blown linux version) and target (stripped down
linux version) machines for the most part have the same images,

libraries, etc. i haven't had any incompatibilities between the host and
target. i've created my own architecture so as not to confuse it

with linux-x86. i build using 'no share' and 'static' in config_site.
here's a link to the ebrick web page. incidentally, the newer ebrick's

have a real-time kernel (2.6.19/w rt patch from osadl) and can boot
using a hdd, compact flash, usb stick, and from the network.
http://www.aps.anl.gov/aod/bcda/synApps/ebrick/ebrick.html
hth,
/david
Mauro Giacchini wrote:

In the EPICS wiki-pages there is a document which may give you someone
hints:
http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/wiki/index.php/HowToPC104
Hope this helps
Mauro.
David DeBonis wrote:

We are working on an embedded EPICS IOC deployment but are running
into some confusion on what is necessary to build to our target
architecture which is ARM running a linux kernel 2.6.x. We have our
own cross-compilers that we would like to use and build with but we
seem to be running into issue with some post-build executables that
need to be run on the target.

Can someone clarify what EPICS binaries are necessary to be deployed
to the target to run as a "Soft IOC" standalone? Also, can we
cross-compile all we need on our host system yet run fully standalone
on the target?

Just to be clear, we are not running as a slave target to a host
computer but as a fully standalone embedded host IOC.

Any clarification is deeply appreciated.

*David DeBonis*

Principal Software Engineer

ZTEC Instruments, Inc.

Phone: 505-342-0132 x133

Fax: 505-342-0222

[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System