embedded linux target with uClibC and PREEMPT_RT needs caRepeater

["Ernest L. Williams Jr." <ernesto@slac.stanford.edu>]

Hi,

We are now starting to do a lot of run time testing with our new embedded linux target IOC:

We are calling it:  "linuxRT-x86"

Some Ingredients:
Linux Kernel = 3.2.13-rt22 #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Mon May 21 16:55:55 PDT 2012 i686 GNU/Linux
uClibc
busybox
PREEMPT_RT

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Thanks to Till Strauman for this work. :)
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Meanwhile, I would like to know of any others out there doing this sort of thing as well?
What are you using? 
What has been your experience?

And now a technical EPICS build related question:

I found that I need to have caRepeater available for my target but EPICS BASE does not build it.
How have others done this? 
We build our target as a CROSS, so caRepeater only gets built for HOST builds.

Now for vxWorks and RTEMS, they use  "repeater.cpp"  which gets linked in.

What I have done for our embedded linux target is the following, is this acceptable?
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Modify,  <BASE>/src/ca/Makefile
And added:

ifeq ($(T_A),linuxRT-x86)
 PROD_DEFAULT += caRepeater catime acctst caConnTest casw caEventRate
endif


Then, I did a build like so,
make CROSS_COMPILER_TARGET_ARCHS=linuxRT-x86


Thanks in advance for your comments and help. 


Cheers,
Ernest