Re: Epics on ARM linux

[tanushyam bhattacharjee <gettanu@yahoo.co.in>]

Dear All,
we did many applications for Strong-ARM using EPICS at our lab and we are changing all iocs to arm based controller by replacing PCs. There
are some changes required to EPICS .ARM is big endian and there is no direct support on the CPU. It uses floating point simulator instead. The cross compiler on x86 machine can be used during application building and the executable and library(.so and .a) can be copied to target machine.

Best of luck,
Tanushyam Bhattacharjee
Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre,Kolkata,India


--- On Sat, 17/7/10, Eric Norum <wenorum@lbl.gov> wrote:

From: Eric Norum <wenorum@lbl.gov>
Subject: Re: Epics on ARM linux
To: emmanuel_mayssat@lynceantech.com
Cc: "EPICS tech-talk" <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>
Date: Saturday, 17 July, 2010, 4:43 AM

We're running EPICS on a SheevaPlug ($99 IOC).
At the APS they're running EPICS on a MOXA UC-7408 Plus

So it's certainly doable.


On Jul 16, 2010, at 4:04 PM, emmanuel_mayssat@lynceantech.com wrote:

> I am currently using epics/linux on x86 intel processors.
> Is there any reason why epics/linux wouldn't be supported on arm processors?
> (linux is but any issue to be expected with epics?)
>
> Is anyone embedding their IOCs in their controlled hardware?
>
> --
> Emmanuel

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