[GSoC 2020: Daily Update]: Building EPICS with RTEMS5

[Mritunjay Sharma]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 5:33 AM Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 5:49 PM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 6, 2020, 6:14 PM Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 10:12 AM Mritunjay Sharma
> >> <mritunjaysharma394 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hello everyone,
> >> >
> >> > Thank you, Heinz, Gedare, Chris and Joel for your advice.
> >> > If there are issues in making a buildset for 4.10
> >> > then should I build EPICS with RTEMS 5 by hand first and note
> >> > down the process and then proceed to make the buildset for it?
> >> >
> >>
> >> Yes.
> >
> >
> > +1
> >
> > And by 5, we definitely mean the 5 branch for all rtems repo and the
> similarly named one for libbsd.
>
> Excellent point. We want to add support for easy build (and eventually
> test) of EPICS+RTEMS starting with 5.1 and moving forward, which means
> also doing it for RTEMS 6, Mritunjay.
>
> Sounds good, I have begun building it hand by today for RTEMS 5 branch and
later on continue the
same for RTEMS6

Thank you so much Gedare and Joel.
Mritunjay

> >>
> >>
> >> > Please suggest for the future steps.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks
> >> > Mritunjay
> >> >
> >> > On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 5:38 AM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> On Sun, Jul 5, 2020, 6:12 PM Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> On 6/7/20 12:47 am, Heinz Junkes wrote:
> >> >>> > Thank you, this is exactly where I was unsure.
> >> >>> > @Chris: Can you give a recommendation here?
> >> >>> > Danke Heinz
> >> >>> >
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> >> >>> >
> >> >>> >> On 5. Jul 2020, at 16:20, Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:
> >> >>> >>
> >> >>> >> On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 1:18 PM Mritunjay Sharma
> >> >>> >> <mritunjaysharma394 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>> >>>
> >> >>> >>>
> >> >>> >>>
> >> >>> >>> On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 12:28 AM Heinz Junkes <
> junkes at fhi-berlin.mpg.de> wrote:
> >> >>> >>>>
> >> >>> >>>> Hello, Mritunjay,
> >> >>> >>>> that's good news. Don't you want to try to develop a rsb-set
> for exactly this combination of RTEMS4.10 and EPICS7?
> >> >>> >>>
> >> >>> >>>
> >> >>> >>> Sure, I am ready to do this and then do it with RTEMS5 in the
> same way. Please tell how to begin or some existing similar
> >> >>> >>> work that can guide me how to proceed further in relation to
> rsb-set for  RTEMS4.10 and EPICS7.
> >> >>> >>>
> >> >>> >>
> >> >>> >> I don't know if this is best. RSB didn't exist in 4.10. I haven't
> >> >>> >> looked to see how well the rtems-source-builder/4.10 would
> support a
> >> >>> >> package build. It should be discussed with Chris probably. A
> couple of
> >> >>> >> packages were added in the 4.11 branch.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> I would leave 4.10 and move on. It may work but these things can
> expose issues
> >> >>> that turn into distractions.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Would making a script that does the build so we can document the
> steps be worth
> >> >>> while
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Yes. Emphatically yes. We need to make sure we know how it is best
> built by hand to automate it.
> >> >>
> >> >> I firmly believe you should not attempt to automate something until
> doing it manually is well understood and documented.
> >> >>
> >> >> After you have this down for one BSP, we need to ask questions like:
> >> >>
> >> >> + Is there any per BSP tailoring beyond the obviod architecture and
> compilation settings?
> >> >>
> >> >> + Any tweaks to settings users may want?
> >> >>
> >> >> The manual process should include testing. The RSB is a great way to
> automate and ease building but it doesn't address testing the packages yet.
> >> >>
> >> >> --joel
> >> >>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Chris
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