Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Ernest L. Williams Jr." <[email protected]> · Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:53:56 -0400

On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 12:55 -0600, Jeff Hill wrote:
> 
> > I would appreciate feedback on whether to incorporate my DSXT work into
> > this release or not (it's currently available on the main trunk).
> >
> 
> This will be needed at LANSCE.
> 
> > Jeff, can you comment on the status of 111, 179 and 216.
> 
> > 111
> 
> I updated entry 111. In summary, I'm not convinced that Ken's change will be
> considered to be appropriate in all situations where CA is used. I will be
> working the issue with Ken. A more complicated fix may be required.
> 
> This is only a problem for single threaded codes that did not follow our
> original recommendation to call ca_poll regularly.
> 
> > 179 
> 
> As the last entries there state, I committed the suggested patches but can't
> test them because I don't have vxWorks 6.0.
> 
Do you want my help here?


> > 216
> 
> I committed a fix, but can't test it because I don't have gcc 4.0 installed
> here (it's not yet available from cygwin and my linux system isn't that
> new).
I could do the test on linux:
gcc version 4.0.1 20050919 (Red Hat 4.0.1-14)


> 
> > Features and Mantis fixes committed on or before November 4th
> > Platform testing during the week of November 7th-11th
> > Final release on November 14/15th.
> 
> Ok with me, but this presumes that the status of a decision regarding, and
> or effort towards, a fix for 111 will not holdup the release.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrew Johnson [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 3:59 PM
> > To: EPICS core-talk
> > Subject: Release 3.14.8: What goes in it and when?
> > 
> > We need to get a new release of 3.14 out soon; I'm getting pressured
> > from more than one site, and there are enough R3.14.7 bugs already fixed
> > to make this worthwhile.  At this point I think a release date in
> > mid-November is probably more important than what extra bug fixes or
> > features we put into it.
> > 
> > I am aware that in the short term Ralph will be far too busy with his
> > paternal responsibilities to do his usual HP-UX fixes, so my suggestion
> > is that 3.14.8 be announced as not supporting HP-UX, but we do a 3.14.9
> > as soon as Ralph is able to perform the necessary HP-UX magic.
> > 
> > Here's a list of features that I'm aware are pending or that could be
> > added before this release:
> > 
> > * Include Shifu Xu's real-time priority-based scheduling for Linux
> > (Posix?) and make enabling this a site-configuration option.
> > * Simulation Mode enhancements from Peter Denison (Diamond)
> > * Device Support eXtension Table: hardware address changes at runtime
> > 
> > In addition these are the entries in Mantis that we should look at:
> > 
> > 54: makeBaseApp.pl -i should ask for app name, not just use IOC name
> > 	Janet committed a fix for this, I'm revising it slightly.
> > 
> > 111: non-preemptive clients disconnect if ca_poll() isnt called regularly
> > 	APS has been running a Gateway with Ken Evans' fix for this
> > 	problem for 6 months.
> > 
> > 179: R3.14.7 does not build with vxWorks 6.0
> > 	This looks like it's been fixed, just not marked as such.
> > 
> > 184: On a powerPC IOC during iocInit, a crash may occur during calls to
> > errlog functions
> > 	This looks like it's been fixed, just not marked as such.
> > 	Entries 182 and 188 may be duplicates of this.
> > 182: strange behavior of outRoutine() in osdStdio.c associated with
> > crash for PPC targets.
> > 188: errlogPrintf for vxWorks cause crash
> > 
> > 200: errlogPrintf shouldnt be called from the core routines used to
> > implement it
> > 
> > 216: Build fails with gcc 4 due to missing forward class declarartions
> > 	Patch provided in report, should be a quick fix.
> > 
> > 
> > Jeff, can you comment on the status of 111, 179 and 216.
> > Marty, can you look at 182, 184 and 188 and comment.
> > 
> > Have I missed anything?
> > 
> > I would appreciate feedback on whether to incorporate my DSXT work into
> > this release or not (it's currently available on the main trunk).
> > 
> > 
> > Suggested Dates:
> > Features and Mantis fixes committed on or before November 4th
> > Platform testing during the week of November 7th-11th
> > Final release on November 14/15th.
> > 
> > If you have any issues with these dates please speak up.
> > 
> > - Andrew
> > --
> > English probably arose from Normans trying to pick up Saxon girls.
>

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