Re: Phoebus on ARM64

[Matthew Newville via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Just for completeness, pyepics and the applications at https://pyepics.github.io/epicsapps/ should also run on ARM and beagleboard without any setup beyond installing. This also includes strip-charting and logging of PVs.

Still, running and displaying a GUI application through its micro-HDMI port might be more trouble than using the inherent networking capabilities of Epics, subscribing to and displaying from another machine.

--Matt

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From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> on behalf of Sukhanov, Andrei via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2026 8:45 AM
To: Heinz Junkes <junkes at fhi-berlin.mpg.de>; Dudley, David <dudleyd at frib.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Phoebus on ARM64

 

David,

For standalone system you can try pypeto (Control GUI), pvplot (Plotting) and apstrim (archiving).

They are pure python, depend on pyqtgraph, p4p (for PVAccess, caproto for channel access), all installable through pip.

/Andrey

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Subject: RE: Phoebus on ARM64

 

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Although in a  larger control system I would agree, in this particular case, I'm building an independent, self-contained system to test specific hardware systems.
The control interface is entirely based and controlled by an EPICS IOC, and I'm just trying to figure on what kind of display system to use.
As FRIB uses phoebus extensively, seemed to make sense to use for the display.
This is on a BeagleBone AI-64 system, which should be more than capable of supporting phoebus, as well as an IOC that probably has less than 200 tags.

I could just as easily place a Black adjacent to the AI-64, and run the IOC on that, and the display on the other.
Again, this is an isolated, self-contained system.

Later-

David

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From: Heinz Junkes <junkes at fhi-berlin.mpg.de>
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2026 2:39 AM
To: Dudley, David <dudleyd at frib.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Phoebus on ARM64

Hi David,

we are using aarch64 (arm) Laptops, running Phoebus on it:

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://urldefense.us/v3/__https:/*linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https*3a*2f*2fphoebus.fhi.mpg.de*2fjob*2fphoebus-fhi-stable*2fjob*2flinux-aarch64*2f&c=E,1,iiDtUADljZo-gi1hnQopcKsVIHIg-0oIRvgBD8p0RjNdqYCm_qfMns6zzQ5e71cE1oQ-C2GJ4D6qmRaLLbEl5wKU_rlTetcLlM_m9j4oFSk,&typo=1__;JSUlJSUlJSU!!G_uCfscf7eWS!fmatHT8sxYoSRRK6metIKBORXVM-hP_G2mP2veI1TspCJkIB5Ymqk2yh6BIQVHTrklGobqqf-ip22rz48WCgToVNyg$__;LyoqKioqKioq!!P4SdNyxKAPE!FVHEhblUnlKK1chLgOoGBa71IZdd8jZQU02XFL0yu-IE3wp9lvX_X9jB8iw-SugVRq7HtskXvsKkLbblzw38tEI$ 

That should also run on the BeagleBoard.

I can agree with what Kay said. On our BeagleBone (Black) systems, only
the IOC (running under RTEMS: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://urldefense.us/v3/__https:/*github.com/hjunkes/RTEMS_BBB__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!fmatHT8sxYoSRRK6metIKBORXVM-hP_G2mP2veI1TspCJkIB5Ymqk2yh6BIQVHTrklGobqqf-ip22rz48WCsePeZbg$__;Lw!!P4SdNyxKAPE!FVHEhblUnlKK1chLgOoGBa71IZdd8jZQU02XFL0yu-IE3wp9lvX_X9jB8iw-SugVRq7HtskXvsKkLbblp1FBsZU$  )
is active, and there is no display system.

I keep the two strictly separate as well.

Gruss Heinz
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> On 25. Aug 2026, at 17:28, Dudley, David via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:
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> Has there been any thought of porting the Phoebus CSS software to ARM64?
>  I have a little BeagleBoard AI-64 system running Linux and XFCE that I’d like to get into a stand-alone test system.  I’ve got the IOC handled, all the drivers managed, and I’m down to display software.
>  Building Phoebus fails miserably.
>  Later-
>  David