HowTo Documents

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Building Base and Modules on Different Architectures and Operating Systems

• How To Use Posix Thread Priority Scheduling under Linux

Applications

• How to Use “Best Practice” Guidelines
• How to adjust Mac OS X firewall for EPICS Applications

Writing Drivers and Device Support

• How To Do Serial (using Asyn Driver and StreamDevice) (also covers VXI-11)
• How to make your EPICS driver operating system independent

Infrastructure and Other Stuff

• How to Set Up a Soft IOC Framework on Linux
• How to Configure Channel Access
• How to Make Channel Access Reach Multiple Soft IOCs on a Linux Host