Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Michael Davidsaver via Tech-talk <[email protected]> · Wed, 26 Jun 2019 18:25:27 -0700

Hello Emilio,

Have you seen?  https://github.com/epics-base/epics-base/

We do now accept pull requests there.
The current focus of development is the 7.0 branch.

FYI there is ongoing work by Heinz Junkes to support the (in progress) RTEMS 5 release.

On 6/26/19 11:13 AM, emilio.perez-juarez--- via Tech-talk wrote:
> Hi all, I hope you are well,
> 
> 
> I would like to share some progress in updating EPICS R3.14.12.7 to support RTEMS 4.11, in this case running on a MVME5500.
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> It's a work in progress but we managed to run rtemsTestsHarness, getting the following message:
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>     EPICS Test Harness Results
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>     ==========================
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> All tests successful.
> Programs=27, Tests=2297, 343 wallclock secs
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> You can find the changes in the last commits of my local fork: https://github.com/hir12111/epics-base
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> <https://github.com/hir12111/epics-base>
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> A couple of changes in non-epics repos are also required:
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>  - In RTEMS file 'src/lib/libbsp/powerpc/mvme5500/network/if_100MHz/GT64260eth.c':  you need to define the macro MAX (this may not be an issue for you if you are not using MVME5500),
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>  - In libbspExt file 'libbspExt/dabrBpnt.c': you need to avoid the use of fp->EXC_DAR, as that field was deleted from the exception frame some time ago, and it wasn't used anyways.
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> I wonder why that repo is not included in epics-base.
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> Please let me know if you have any comments.
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> Best regards and thank you,
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> Emilio
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System