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Re: what are your definitions of softIOC and soft record? |
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Benjamin Franksen <[email protected]> |
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Thu, 25 Oct 2012 03:19:30 +0200 |
Am Mittwoch, 24. Oktober 2012, 21:51:17 schrieb Jack Smith:
> Hello All,
>
> Here is my understanding of what is softIOC and what is soft record:
>
> 1. softIOC: any IOC (application/instance) running on Linux or Darwin is a
> softIOC since each softIOC is an independent process and multiple softIOCs
> can be running on the same physical machine. On the other hand, only one
> IOC can be running on vxWorks or RTEMS so that I would say IOC running
> on vxWorks or RTEMS is not a typical sofIOC. A softIOC can control real
> hardware.
I always thought of softIOC as an IOC that does /not/ have direct access to
"devices", accessing them only through network, serial IOC or some such. That
you can have more than one on the same physical machine never occurred to me
as a defining property for "softIOC".
I guess "softIOC" is a "soft term", there is no precise definition (and
therefore I'd argue the term is rather useless).
> 2. soft record: any record not associated with real hardware is a soft
> record. The DTYP field of a soft record is "Soft Channel" (default for
> DTYP), "Raw Soft Channel", or "Async Soft Channel".
Yes. You could improve this definition by stating that the INP or OUT link
must be of type pv_link (in teh sense of link.h in base), which includes any
potential future "soft" support type.
Cheers
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