Hi Mark,

I have a problem, which I have been ignoring for a while.

I have a device driver for a VME module based on asynPortDriver class.  It is used with asyn R4.18, EPICS R3.14.12.2, vxWorks 6.6.

I have coded a couple of routines to disable interrupts when the IOC is shutdown (with CTRL-X), which does not work.  Restarting the IOC which uses the asyn based driver with CTRL-X fails to come up.  The IOC reaches some point in the booting sequence and then I suppose it crashes because the boot starts all over.  I recover from that with a VME reset.  Also, if I disable interrupts before rebooting all works fine.

I have created another device driver using the conventional approach, which does not use asyn.  As far as I can tell most of the code if not the same is equivalent.  With this device driver the interrupts get disabled on exit.

This is what I have in the asynPortDriver version of the device driver:

In the constructor I have:

  epicsAtExit( rebootCbC,this);

then I have:

extern "C"{

…

static void rebootCbC( void* pvt){

  drvV792* pthis=(drvV792*)pvt;

  pthis->rebootCb();

}

}

void drvV792::rebootCb(){

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------

  printf( "%s::rebootCb: Interrupts disabled and Soft reset\n",dname);

  fflush(stdout);

  epicsThreadSleep(1.0);

  _wtReg( ILEV,0);

  _wtReg( EVTR,0);

}

Writing 0 to the EVTR disables interrupts.  Also writing 0 to the ILEV register disables interrupts.

In fact, the same rebootCB code, seems to work fine in the non-asyn driver.

Is something subtle taking place because of vxWorks?

Can you offer suggestion on how to make it work?

Thanks in advance,

Zen