Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Bill Lavender <[email protected]> · Tue, 26 Jun 2001 16:20:43 -0500

On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 08:28:36PM -0500, John Quintana wrote:
> Anyway, I was wondering if anyone else was interested and or working
> on this approach or if we were a "lone wolf".   It would seem to me
> that the prospects of a true Linux IOC would really lower the barrier
> for EPICS since VxWorks isn't needed for the nondemanding applications,
> the basic "Crate and Controller" can be a barebones PC box up to a high
> end CompactPCI system.  In the near future [depending on workload], I
> plan on working in some Binary Input and Binary Output Boards.  I would
> also like to get the drivers for the Koyo PLC Direct systems and see if I
> can't get these working using Linux serial ports. Discussion can take
> place here or offline depending on what is most appropriate.

Can you send me a copy of the changes that you had to make to talk to the
Cyberresearch boards?  It would be useful to see some examples of what is
required to talk to real devices under Linux via ioccore.

Bill Lavender
[email protected]

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System