Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:33:46 -0500

Hi Dirk,

On Wednesday 19 August 2009 05:42:19 Dirk Zimoch wrote:
>
> Generally, vxWorks 6 has some new features (e.g. real time processes) which
> are not used by EPICS. vxWorks 6 still supports running applications, e.g.
> EPICS, in "kernel space" (which is all you had in vxWorks 5). However, the
> vxWorks shell has changed a bit and not everything that worked in vxWorks 5
> startup scripts might work in vxWork 6 startup scripts (I had difficulties
> sourcing other scripts). I think I can tell more once I have the MVME4100
> running.

I wonder if your sourcing scripts problem is the the same issue we found when 
we upgraded to vxWorks 5.5.2 - if you use the construct
    ld < ioc.munch
in your startup script then all subsequent shell redirections to source other 
scripts get ignored.  The solution is to replace the above line with this
    ld 0, 0, "ioc.munch"
which permits later shell source commands to operate normally.  I think it's 
highly likely that Wind River broke both versions of the target shell at the 
same time...

- Andrew
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System