RE: VxWorks on Linux

[Mark Rivers <rivers@cars.uchicago.edu>]

At our beamline at the APS we are very interested in this.  Our vxWorks
files (Tornado 2.02) actually all reside on a Linux file server, and the
IOCs boot from the Linux machine.  We use a Solaris system to build with,
via NFS mount.  The Sun is old, and is about 7 times slower than the Linux
box.  I have successfully used recent versions of gcc on Linux to build for
the MV167 and MV162.  However, when I try to build for the PPC604 on Linux
it compiles fine, but there are run-time problems with the C++ exception
handling code.  It would be very nice to have a supported environment to
build on Linux.

> 1. Mark Rivers (Tim Mooney is official contact?)
> 2. APS CATS (???)
> 3. 10 licences were originally purchased for CATS, Tim should have more
recent numbers?
> 4. VxWorks license number ????

Mark Rivers
CARS
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Argonne National Laboratory
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