Re: epics on ecos

[Till Straumann <strauman@slac.stanford.edu>]

Geoff Savage wrote:

> Okay let me ask a different question.  Has anyone used RTEMS/EPICS on 
> a pc104 board?

I can't imagine it to be difficult - certainly not harder than porting 
ecos to epics osi. Don't forget that
even with epics osi many drivers/device support modules may still directly
rely on OS services so you would have to port those to ecos, too.

Till

> Thanks for all the input,  Geoff
>
> Eric Norum wrote:
>
> > On Jun 10, 2005, at 8:00 AM, Geoff Savage wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > We are assisting on a project to test rf modules and one of the 
> > > groups already has a pc104 system running ecos.  Instead of changing 
> > > their software they wanted to see if they could adapt EPICS.  The 
> > > build scripts have been configured and one of the engineers familiar 
> > > with ecos is working on the osi portion.
> >
> >
> >
> > My $0.02
> >
> > How complex is this application?  Is it really less effort to port 
> > EPICS to another open-source RTOS than to convert a single 
> > application?   Is there some other advantage of eCOS over RTEMS?   
> > Diversity is good, but I worry about dilution of resources.