Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Wang, Lin" <[email protected]> · Mon, 16 Oct 2017 22:24:57 +0800 (GMT+08:00)

> Do you have some specific requirement driving the use of vxWorks/VME, or
> is this a matter of familiarity and experience?  

We are familiar with VxWorks, but Linux is also acceptable. At this moment, We do not have any real-time performance requirement yet.

> To me, Linux is a much
> more forgiving environment than RTEMS/vxWorks.  I've found non-RT Linux
> to be more than capable of meeting the 10ms cycle deadline of FRIB.  PSI
> reported a similar experience with RT Linux at the last week.

If we choose Linux, which Linux distribution would you recommend for running mrfioc2? Which Linux distribution do you and PSI use for running or testing mrfioc2?

Thanks,
Lin

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System