Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

[email protected] · Mon, 02 Oct 95 14:10:30 -0500

>Several developers (Joe Sullivan, Pete Jemian, and Bill Lavender) in
>the APS beamline-controls collaboration are doing this.  All are using
>the MVME162-042.  By the way, John Winans had to fix the VxWorks 5.2
>MVME162 board-support package to make this work.

Actually, it SHOULD be possible to get EPICS running on an mvme162 without
my modified vxWorks.  But you will have problems with VXI systems, the
NI1014 board, DVX2502, HiDEOS slave boards and anything else that requires
the use of the A24 space, a 1:1 mapping of A32 space, or expects the GCSR
to start at A16:0x0000.  (If you don't know what I am typing about, try it
and see if you get funky bus errors from drivers or functions with names
like those I just mentioned.  If so, grab my modified BSP.  If not,
continue living the GOOD life.)

FYI --

At the APS, we ONLY support the 162 using vxWorks version 5.2.  Older
versions might work, but I would not bet on it.

Anyone that receives a vxWorks tape from XFD or myself SHOULD receive a
version that contains my BSP board mods.  If you want the latest copy of
my BSP mods and have an account, you can grab the parts I modified (the
config tree of the vxWorks distribution) by grabbing:

	ftp://phoebus.aps.anl.gov/usr/local/vw/vxV52/config.tar.gz  (1MB)

Or you can just grab the entire release and untar it (easier than the wind
rivers CDROM installation) by grabbing:

	ftp://phoebus.aps.anl.gov/usr/local/vw/vxV52/vw52.tar.gz    (29MB)

There is a 'bld' shell script that I use to compile it in
vxV52/vw/config/mv{162,167}/bld that should work where ever you have your
vxWorks 5.2 installed.

Questions, comments, concerns, flames, beer, and marriage proposals may be
addressed to me at [email protected]

Have fun,

--John

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System