Author: Passuello, R.
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WEPGF112 Flop: Customizing Yocto Project for MVMExxxx PowerPC and BeagleBone ARM 958
 
  • L. Pivetta, A.I. Bogani, R. Passuello
    Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy
 
  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.  
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