Experimental Physics and
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[email protected] (Steve Lewis) · Tue, 28 Apr 98 11:45:49 PDT

> Would someone mind filling me in on the status of the various efforts
> to port EPICS to the PPC?  Any solid successes?  Any serious problems?

We have successfully brought EPICS up on the Radstone rs60x and
Motorola mv2306 BSPs, and built (but not tested) it for the
Motorola 1603/1604/2604 BSPs.

Wherever the findSymByName function was used, conditional code was
added since ccppc does not prepend "_" to global symbols as cc68k
does.  It was trivial to synthesize the CONFIG_ARCH files by picking
the options off the WRS kernel builds.  The work was done mostly by Susanna
Jacobson with some advice from me.

I will try and get the diffs to APS after the LANL meeting (or during!).

We have only tested a few VME drivers, and a modest amount of typical
soft stuff.

Thanks to some folks at BNL who had done it, I was able to drop a PPC family
installation directly on top of my 68K family installation so that
one EPICS refers to one WIND_BASE (and thus one VX_DIR) and both families
build cleanly.  Nice to see

CROSS_COMPILER_TARGET_ARCHS=mv147 mv167 mv177 nicpu030 mv1603 mv1604
					rx60x mv2604 mv2306

This is all with R3.13B11--and a nice kit it is.

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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