Tutorial

Getting started with EPICS on RTEMS

W. Eric Norum

• Contents
• Introduction
• Infrastructure – Tools and Operating System
  • Create the RTEMS source and installation directories
  • Add the directory containing the tools to your shell search path
  • Get and build the development tools
    • Download the tool source files
    • Unpack the source archives:
    • Apply any RTEMS-specific patches
    • Configure, build and install the `binutils’:
    • Configure, build and install the cross-compiler and libraries
  • Get, build and install RTEMS
    • Download the RTEMS source from the OAR web server.
    • Unpack the RTEMS sources
    • Make changes to the RTEMS source to reflect your local conditions.
      • MVME167
      • PC-x86
    • Build and install RTEMS
  • Get, build and install some RTEMS add-on packages
    • Download the add-on package sources
    • Unpack the add-on package sources
    • Set the RTEMS_MAKEFILE_PATH environment variable
    • Build and install the add-on packages
  • Try running some RTEMS sample applications (optional)
  • Extended BSP routines
• EPICS Base
  • Specify the location of RTEMS tools and libraries
  • Specify the network domain
  • Specify the network interface
  • Specify the target architectures
  • Build EPICS base
• EPICS Applications
  • The EPICS example application
    • Build the example application
    • Install the EPICS IOC files on the TFTP/NFS server
    • Run the example application on an RTEMS IOC
    • Location of EPICS startup script
      • MVME2100 Using PPCBUG
      • Motorola Processors Using MOTLOAD
      • PC386
      • Arcturus uCDIMM ColdFire 5282
• Script to get and build the cross-development tools
  • getAndBuildTools-4.9.2.sh
  • getAndBuildTools-4.10.sh