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Subject: Re: Ideas / Suggestions for the future of VME-CPU Operating Systems
From: Heinz Junkes <[email protected]>
To: Goetz Pfeiffer <[email protected]>
Cc: EPICS tech-talk <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 16:37:04 +0200
Hello Goetz,

at the FHI (in Berlin ;-) ) we run RTEMS 4.12 with EPICS 3.16 on beatnik-boards (MVME6100)
and MVME2500 boards with success.

I can provide a RTEMS - EPICS 4.12 pre-release for MVME6100.

Hope to incorporate it final into epics-base by next 2-3 months.

I haven’t port cexp to rtems 4.12, would be happy for help ;-)

We setup new experiments still with VME bus systems. 

Best regards,
Heinz

> On 20 Sep 2017, at 11:28, Goetz Pfeiffer <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (https://www.helmholtz-berlin.de/) we use EPICS for our control system.
> We have a growing number of soft IOCs with Linux and VME bus based IOCs mostly running RTEMS and 
> some vxWorks 5.4 (Tornado 2.02).
> 
> Our CPU boards are MVME162 and MVME2100. We have replaced more than half of the old MVME162 boards with
> MVME2100 boards, of which we bought a large supply some years ago.
> After migrating most VME CPUs to RTEMS 4.9 we have run into some problems:
> 
> 	• Newer CPU boards like the MVME5500 require the "beatnik" board support, which only works with RTEMS 4.10
> 	• RTEMS 4.10 has some problems regarding the "cexp" shell and doesn't work on some of our IOCs.
> 	• cexp, the shell for RTEMS is not compatible with RTEMS 4.11 and 4.12, but we need it for dynamic loading of objects
> 	• gesys, the component that is used to create the RTEMS kernel seems to be a bit of a mess
> 	• RTEMS 4.11 and 4.12 are not supported by the EPICS base
> 	• Debian Packages for RTEMS are no longer maintained
> 	• The intersection of the people using RTEMS and the ones using EPICS seems to be small and getting smaller, so with problems we are much on our own
> A possibility would be to use vxWorks again. Our current vxWorks version is very old and has to be updated. Problems here:
> 
> 	• MVME2100 boards do not seem to be supported by vxWorks 6
> 	• Possibly high costs for CPU licenses for vxWorks
> What are your experiences with this ? 
> Do you still use VME bus systems ?
> 
> Is there a future for RTEMS in EPICS control systems ?
> 
> Are there alternatives to RTEMS and vxWorks ?
> 
> Greetings,
> 
>   Goetz Pfeiffer

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