 22 May 2020, Konstantin Olchanski, Release, midas-2020-03-a
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> midas-2020-03-a is here.
> checkout the top of branch release/midas-2020-03 (recommended) or
> checkout the tag midas-2020-03-a.
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 24 Aug 2020, Konstantin Olchanski, Release, midas-2020-12
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midas-2020-12-a is here.
new features and notable updates since midas-2020-03: |
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10 Feb 2021, Konstantin Olchanski, Release, midas-2020-12-a
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midas-2020-12-a is here, see https://midas.triumf.ca/MidasWiki/index.php/Changelog#2020-12
notable change from previous midas releases:
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18 Jul 2022, Konstantin Olchanski, Release, midas-2022-05
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There is a release branch for midas-2022-05 and corresponding git tag midas-2022-
05-b. This branch is known to be stable and is working well for the ALPHA
experiment at CERN. Latest update to this branch fixes two problems in the
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19 Aug 2024, Konstantin Olchanski, Release, kernel-module-universe updated to -KO7
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The linux kernel driver for the Universe-II VME to PCI bridge is updated to
version -KO7. It now builds and runs with Debian-12 stock kernel 6.1.0-22-686.
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19 Aug 2024, Konstantin Olchanski, Release, kernel-module-universe updated to -KO7
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> The linux kernel driver for the Universe-II VME to PCI bridge is updated to
> version -KO7. It now builds and runs with Debian-12 stock kernel 6.1.0-22-686.
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19 Aug 2024, Konstantin Olchanski, Release, kernel-module-universe updated to -KO7
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> > The linux kernel driver for the Universe-II VME to PCI bridge is updated to
> > version -KO7. It now builds and runs with Debian-12 stock kernel 6.1.0-22-686.
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29 Sep 2004, Stefan Ritt, Info, Increased number of clients in midas.h, important!
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Due to some request several limitations like the maximal number of clients to the ODB have
been increased in midas.h and committed to CVS. It is important to note that clients compiled
with the old limits cannot coexist with clients compiled with the new limits. You will get
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03 Oct 2004, Stefan Ritt, Info, Introduction of new transition scheme
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A new transition scheme has been implemented and committed. Previously, one had the
possibility to register for PRE/POST transitions, which was necessary in order to first
stop the frontends, then stop the logger to close the data file. While this scheme
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03 Oct 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Increased number of clients in midas.h, important!
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> It is important to note that clients compiled
> with the old limits cannot coexist with clients compiled with the new limits. You will get
> ODB corruption notifications and everything will crash, and you wonder where this comes from.
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03 Oct 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, mscb usb support for macosx
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After a felicitous confuence of stellar bodies (Stefan, myself, some mscb hardware
and a mac laptop all in the same room for a few days), I wrote some MacOSX
code to support the MSCB-USB dongle using the native IoKit USB API. During testing,
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03 Oct 2004, Stefan Ritt, Info, Increased number of clients in midas.h, important!
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> Stefan, to avoid confusion from crashes caused by incompatible ODBs would it be possible to add a "version number" to ODB,
together with a check and an error message
> saying "oops... incompatible ODB, please rebuild your programs"? We tend to have different versions of midas floating around and
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03 Oct 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Increased number of clients in midas.h, important!
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> However, we are planning to make a new release 1.9.5 soon (next week), so can can people tell not to "mix" 1.9.5 with pre-1.9.5 programs.
Right. We cannot fix the past, but we should fix the future. BTW, "do not mix versions" is hard to enforce and mismatches did, do and
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04 Oct 2004, Stefan Ritt, Info, Increased number of clients in midas.h, important!
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> Right. We cannot fix the past, but we should fix the future. BTW, "do not mix versions" is hard to enforce and mismatches did, do and
> will happen
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08 Oct 2004, chris pearson, Info, Increased number of clients in midas.h, important!
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> > For one thing, looking at a given midas-using executable, how do I tell what version of midas it has inside?
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08 Oct 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Increased number of clients in midas.h, important!
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> A lot of programs have a commandline option, such as "--version", where they return the program version number then exit. As well as the
> program version number, the version number of the midas library it's linked with could also be returned (There can be more than one
> libmidas.so on a system and this would show which one was currently being linked)
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02 Nov 2004, Renee Poutissou, Info, Event Builder info in mhttpd Status page
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Information about the Event Builder statistics has been removed from the
Status page in mhttpd. I heard from Pierre that this information might
be redundant when using the new Event Builder format???
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24 Nov 2004, chris pearson, Info, midas on 64bit opteron
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Midas, version 1.9.5 of 7th October, was installed, with a few changes, on a
64 bit opteron computer, running linux. For this processor, as for the alpha
processor, long integers and addresses are 64 bits. We added a new flag in the
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14 Dec 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Commit local TWIST modifications
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I am commiting MIDAS modification accumulated during the last few months of running TWIST:
1) system.c::ss_shm_open() fail if trying to map a file that is smaller than we expect.
2) midas.c::bm_lock_buffer(), el_submit(), el_delete_message(): do not wait for mutexes forever, use a 5
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14 Dec 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Commit local TWIST modifications
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> I am commiting MIDAS modification accumulated during the last few months of running TWIST:
More:
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