RE: alpha port

[Peregrine McGehee <mcgehee@cfht.hawaii.edu>]

Tony Cox writes:
> No, at present I've only ported the workstation code. Porting to SBC alpha/
> vxworks is in the `works', but is low priority for me.
> 
> My suspicion is that you should not have too much trouble, since Sparc is (as
> I believe) 32 bit and big endian. You may well have to do some work on
> the drivers...

Has anyone managed to port the vxWorks side of EPICS to a non-68K target? We
(CFHT) are looking at using a Sparc target for our Telescope Control System
upgrade.

We don't think that alignment, endian problems, or floating point formats will
be any problems but are somewhat concerned about side-effects due to 
instructions that were atomic on a CISC cpu that aren't on a RISC machine.

In any advent, I will be attempting a first build of this week of R3.12.1 
(=Beta13) for a Sparc target and hp700 host.

Aloha,
	Peregrine