The Joint Accelerator Conferences Website (JACoW) is an international collaboration that publishes the proceedings of accelerator conferences held around the world.
TY - CONF AU - Pivetta, L. AU - Bogani, A.I. AU - Passuello, R. ED - Corvetti, Lou ED - Riches, Kathleen ED - Schaa, Volker RW TI - Flop: Customizing Yocto Project for MVMExxxx PowerPC and BeagleBone ARM J2 - Proc. of ICALEPCS2015, Melbourne, Australia, 17-23 October 2015 C1 - Melbourne, Australia T2 - International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems T3 - 15 LA - english AB - During the last fifteen years several PowerPC-based VME single board computers, belonging to the MVMExxxx family, have been used for the control system front-end computers at Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste. Moreover, a low cost embedded board has been recently adopted to fulfill the control requirements of distributed instrumentation. These facts lead to the necessity of managing several releases of the operating system, kernel and libraries, and finally to the decision of adopting a comprehensive unified approach based on a common codebase: the Yocto Project. Based on Yocto Project, a control system oriented GNU/Linux distribution called 'Flop' has been created. The complete management of the software chain, the ease of upgrading or downgrading complete systems, the centralized management and the platform-independent deployment of the user software are the main features of Flop. PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 958 EP - 961 KW - network KW - software KW - Linux KW - controls KW - embedded DA - 2015/12 PY - 2015 SN - 978-3-95450-148-9 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2015-WEPGF112 UR - http://jacow.org/icalepcs2015/papers/wepgf112.pdf ER -