Re: EPICS on Delta Tau Power PMAC

[Krzysztof Lazarski <lazarski@anl.gov>]

Bill,
The dates were December 2008 and the TWG meeting was January 2009:
http://www.aps.anl.gov/About/Committees/InterCAT_Technical_Workgroup/archive
.htm
The tech-talk email:
http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/tech-talk/2009/msg00008.php

Thank you,
Christopher

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On 6/1/11 11:22 AM, "Krzysztof Lazarski" <lazarski@anl.gov> wrote:

> Bill,
> 
> In December 2009 on Power PMAC training class, I was able to compile EPICS
> on Power PMAC after adding a few missing Debian packages into the system.
> At that time Henry Bausley from Delta Tau included these packages as a
> standard on their board.
> We were interested in having EPICS ioc with SNL running on the board itself
> and we succeeded. After adding these packages compilation was
> straightforward.
> I presented results at the TWG meeting here at APS early 2010.
> I was also able to build the more convenient development environment without
> memory restrictions which are on Power PMAC board, on one of my older
> Macintosh by installing Debian for ppc architecture.
> Since that time we took different approach in our project, if you would have
> any problems building EPICS on Power PMAC, please contact me, hopefully I
> should be able to help.
> 
> Thank you,
> Christopher

On 5/31/11 11:08 PM, "Bill Cruise" <cruise@cfht.hawaii.edu> wrote:

> I recently took the Turbo PMAC class at Delta Tau and was told that
> their newest PMAC motion controller version, the Power PMAC, can run
> EPICS.  It is even in their sales brochures.  If we can move parts of
> our application inside a Power PMAC, it looks like it can provide a big
> improvement to an upgrade project we are doing.
> 
> But, before jumping into this, I'd like to know if any EPICS folks are
> running EPICS on the Power PMAC and what your experiences have been.
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> Bill Cruise
> Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope