EPICS BASE Release 3'14'0alpha1 EPICS Meeting at ORNLSNS

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EPICS BASE Release 3.14.0alpha1EPICS Meeting at
ORNL/SNS

• November 16, 2000
• Marty Kraimer

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Epics Base Release 3.14.0alpha1

• Main Goal Port iocCore
• vxWorks 5.4 (Tornado 2) required
• RTEMS Open Source Real Time Operating System
• Solaris Solaris 6 and Solaris 8 tested
• Linux Redhat 6.1, 6.2, 7.0 tested
• Win32 NT
• Hardware Support
• vxWorks support unbundled
• Some for RTEMS
• Requires major changes for Unix, Linux, win32

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Epics Base Release 3.14.0alpha1

• Not Supported
• HPUX What to do?
• Versions before 11 do not properly support
  pthreads
• Perhaps only support starting with version 11
• Has not been tested.
• Looks promising.
• Everything not mentioned on previous slide.
• Main Porting Problem is multithreading
• Good support for pthreads OR
• Threads support for implementing osiThread and
  osiSem
• Multithreading now required
• For iocCore will always be manditory
• For CA clients should single thread mode be
  supported?

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Epics Base Release 3.14.0alpha1

• Status
• Not Ready for Production Systems
• I have tested vxWorks Test stand with many VME
  I/O modules
• Encourage users to try Win32, Solaris, Linux soft
  iocs
• Supporting many platforms will be a challenge
• Each platform has many versions
• Many versions of G
• C is particular challenge
• Most implementations still dont support standard
• Standard C library implementations still
  immature.