 02 May 2005, Stefan Ritt, Info, strlcpy/strlcat moved into separate file
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I had to move strlcpy & strlcat into a separate file "strlcpy.c". A header file
"strlcpy.h" was added as well. This way one can omit the old HAVE_STRLCPY which
made life hard. The windows and linux makefiles were adjusted accordingly, but
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 01 Sep 2005, Stefan Ritt, Info, CAMAC register_cnaf_callback()
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> Some time ago, the "remote CAMAC" functionality in mfe.c was made conditional on
> HAVE_CAMAC. This flag is not set by default so remote camac calls silently do
> not work, unless midas is compiled in a special way. I am too lazy to compile
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01 Sep 2005, Stefan Ritt, Bug Fix, fix race condition between clients on run start/stop, pause/resume
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> It turns out that the new priority sequencing of run state transitions had a
> flaw: the frontends, the analyzer and the logger all registered at priority 500
> and were invoked in essentially a random order. For example the frontend could
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01 Sep 2005, Stefan Ritt, Info, new mvmestd api
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Good that you brought up the MIDAS VME API again, since this is still not complete, but
has to be completed soon.
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01 Sep 2005, Stefan Ritt, Suggestion, new mvmestd api
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Anothe idea which comes to my mind, we could make it kind of object oriented, like
typedef struct {
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11 Sep 2005, Stefan Ritt, Info, new mvmestd api
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> Right, but I can only complete the parts that I thought of and for which I already have
> code. This leaves out support for DMA (read: any block transfers) and interrupts.
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03 Oct 2005, Stefan Ritt, Info, Revised MVMESTD API
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Dear MIDAS users and developers,
The "Midas VME Standard API" has been revised. We tried to incorporate all
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07 Oct 2005, Stefan Ritt, Info, MIDAS moved from CVS to Subversion
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Dear Midas users,
I have moved midas from CVS to Subversion today. There were many reasons for doing so, which I don't want to explain in detail here. To use the new repository, |
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10 Oct 2005, Stefan Ritt, Info, Bus drivers moved in repository
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The previous midas/drivers/bus dirctory contains both midas slow control bus drivers plus vme & fastbus & camac drivers. I separated them now in different
directories:
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02 Nov 2005, Stefan Ritt, Suggestion, Where to put drivers?
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Hi,
I would like to raise the question where to put the midas drivers.
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06 Nov 2005, Stefan Ritt, Suggestion, Where to put drivers?
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[quote="Stefan Ritt"]We have both the example experiment and the MSCB Makefile which both expect to find the midas drivers under [b]$MIDASSYS/drivers/camac[/b]
or [b]$MIDASSYS/drivers/usb[/b]. The documentation does not explicitely mention to define MIDASSYS as [b]/usr/local[/b], but some people do it. That however
requires to put all drivers then under [b]/usr/local/drivers[/b], which is not the case in the current Makefile for midas. Do you think that we should |
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23 Nov 2005, Stefan Ritt, Bug Fix, Endian swapping in mana.c
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It was reported that following code in mana.c :
[code]
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23 Dec 2005, Stefan Ritt, Info, midas max event size?
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> My TPC events are fairly large: 18 FEC cards * 128 channels per card * 2 Kbytes
> per channel = about 4 Mbytes. In my
> frontend, when I request this event size, MIDAS complaints (in mfe.c) that it is
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23 Dec 2005, Stefan Ritt, Info, How do I do custom event building?
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> It turns out the the standard event builder fragment matching algorithm cannot
> be used in my TPC application. I have two TPC-USB interfaces, which lack any
> "busy" or synchronization logic. I send the hardware trigger into both
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24 Dec 2005, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, minor changes to run transition code
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> I am now considering allowing the run to end even if some clients cannot be
> contacted. The begin, pause and resume transitions would continue to fail if
> clients cannot be contacted.
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03 Jan 2006, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, mhttpd "edit on start" broken for arrays
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> If a variable under "/experiment/edit on start/" is an array, it is correctly
> offered for editing on the "start run page", but then all elements in the array
> end up set to the value of the first element.
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03 Jan 2006, Stefan Ritt, Suggestion, Handling multiple identical USB devices
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> Any thoughts?
I got an idea of how to solve this problem in an OS-independent manner. The USB
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26 Mar 2006, Stefan Ritt, Info, svn@savannah.psi.ch down ?
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> Hi,
> I was trying to update the checkout of Midas, but it looks like something is not
> working - maybe a component of the Savannah system:
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08 May 2006, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, cm_register_transition gyrations
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> I am debugging a Rome-based DAQ system setup by Pierre A. (the system does not
> work because of bugs in Rome).
>
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18 May 2006, Stefan Ritt, Bug Fix, Fixed problems with reload of custom pages
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We had a problem with custom pages and reloading of them. If they contain an ODB field which is editable, one can change the ODB value through the custom
page. The URL then contains a "?cmd=Set&value=x&index=x" section, which stays in the browser's address bar after the ODB value has been updated. If the
value changes later by some other means in the ODB, and one presses "reload" in the browser, the above URL gets executed again and the value gets changed |