Hi Zen,
On Tuesday 30 September 2008 17:09:25 Szalata, Zenon M. wrote:
> Is it possible to control the order in which epics records are initialized
> when the IOC starts up? I am working on an IOC for a device and I would
> like to reset this device. I have an output record which writes a number
> to the device at init time (PINI=YES), which resets it. In order that my
> scheme works, this record needs to be initialized before any other record.
> I am using streamdevice with asyn. I am tracing all IO and I see that the
> initialization order is arbitrary. Any help would be appreciated,
As you have discovered, the IOC's record initialization order is not
specified. In practice I believe it's currently ordered first by record type
in the order of entry in the DBD file, and within each record type in
alphabetical order by record name, but I wouldn't suggest that you rely on
that order in case it changes in future releases.
I don't know whether streamdevice allows you to specify an initialization
message that can be sent to the device at startup; if it does use that to
perform the reset rather than relying on your reset record. If not, try and
do the reset from an iocsh/vxWorks command that you can put in the st.cmd
file before iocInit. If you can't work out how to do that, maybe you could
link all your device I/O records SDIS links to an "initialized" record which
only lets them process after the reset has happened (this makes setting PINI
on any of them a bit of a lottery though).
HTH,
- Andrew
--
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