Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Hi Andrew

Am 06.10.21 um 17:13 schrieb Johnson, Andrew N.:
> On Oct 6, 2021, at 2:51 AM, Ben Franksen via Tech-talk
> <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov<mailto:tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>> wrote:
>
> I am getting lots of build errors when I try to build
> iocStats-3.16.1 for RTEMS-5 (using base-7.0.6). We compile for the
> BSPs mvme2100 and beatnik.
>
> Has anyone perhaps already been through that and would be willing to
> share?
>
> We have not yet, but we’re going to need it to support that OS soon,
> so I should be able to offer some help from the APS with code reviews
> and maybe more.

Okay, thanks. The main problem seems to be that the CPU load
measurements rely on internal data structures that have changed from
4.10 to 5. Porting this code is going to be messy. It would be ideal if
RTEMS-5 had a stable API for this stuff and perhaps it has, nowadays,
but I haven't investigated this yet.

> The iocStats module could use a major overhaul but it doesn’t really
> have a maintainer at the moment and it isn’t clear which parts are
> being used by which labs — nobody wants to rip out stuff that another
> lab might still be using.
>
> Do you have MVME2100 boards running RTEMS-5 yet?

Not yet. Still busy trying to get our support modules to build.

> Any issues with them
> that should be fed back to Base?

Again, not yet, except one fix but that applies to all base and RTEMS
versions for this board, which I made a long time ago and never came
around to pushing upstream. I attached a patch file, it fixes a bad rule
that can fail if run in parallel.

Anything else I will report if/when it comes up. The release notes
mention that mvme2100 BSP needs patches but doesn't provide any details.
So far I found one rather trivial issue: its bsp.h misses a declaration
for bsp_reset() (the function itself is there).

Cheers
Ben
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