Setup notes to run the IARC Server, H2RG, and Aladdin software on bigdogh, guidedog, CentOS 6.x i386
by Tony Denault
Notes on setting up a CentOS 6.4 i386 computer "bigdog" and "guidedog" with
the IARC controller tools and software.
This was written for iarc1.0 2013-09 iarc software release.
I installed iarc on spex's bigdogh computer in 2013-09.
I installed iarc on spex's guidedog computer in 2013-11.
1. Wine and DSP Tools
The DSP tools are needed compile .asm files for iarc. To run these on a
centos computer, you need to install wine. Wine for is available from EPEL.
Install the EPEL Repository
Ref: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-centos-6.3-x86_64-nginx-dovecot-ispconfig-3
section 7 talked about additional repositories, I just did the EPEL.
Download and Install:
rpm --import https://fedoraproject.org/static/0608B895.txt
wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
install yum priorites:
yum install yum-priorities
Edit /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo...
vi /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
... and add the line priority=10 to the [epel] section:
[epel]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - $basearch
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/$basearch
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-6&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
priority=10
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6
[...]
Install Wine
# yum install wine
A quick test of wine would be: "wine cmd". This should get you athe DOS prompt. Then exit.
Install DSP Tools in User Account
From http://www.astro-cam.com/ you will need the Window 56300 Assemblers.
This is used to compile software on the ARC-22 Timing board. This file
has been archived on ~s2/public_html/vendors/arc/software
We will install the dsp tool to ~/tools/DSP in the s2 user account.
install -d ~/tools/DSP
cd ~/tools/DSP
cp /home/s2/public_html/vendor_info/arc/software/clas563.zip .
unzip clas563.zip
For a quick test, this should run the aassembler:
> wine /home/s2/tools/DSP/clas563/bin/asm56300
2. IARC Source Code
Per CL's email 2013-09-12, the source for iarc is located in /home/iarc/src/IARC-1.0/
You will need to following from /home/iarc/src/IARC-1.0/
(updated 11-19-2013 - added ALBL_DSP/
_____APPLICATION___ _________SOURCE_CODE_LOCATION____________________________ _COPY_METHOD__
ARC66 Device driver - located in /home/iarc/src/IARC-1.0/DRIVER/astropci copy
DSP code for H2RG - located in /home/iarc/src/IARC-1.0/H2RG/H2RG.DSP.SpeX hg clone
DSP code for Aladdin - located in /home/iarc/src/IARC-1.0/ALBL_DSP hg clone
IARC Server - located in /home/iarc/src/IARC-1.0/iarc hg clone
needs /home/iarc/src/IARC-1.0/cfitsio copy
needs /home/iarc/src/IARC-1.0/ARC_API hg clone
WEBGUI - located in /home/iarc/src/IARC-1.0/WEBGUI hg clone
parint device driver - located in /home/iarc/src/IARC-1.0/DRIVER/parint copy
3. ARC66 Device Driver - BIGDOG and GUIDEDOG
Using vendor driver AstroPCIe3.0_E60_x32.tar.bz2 (archived by iarc)
Installed as user s2
Copy the driver from iarc
cd ~/src/IARC-1.0 // create the directory if necessary
cp -Rp /home/iarc/src/IARC-1.0/DRIVER . // copie device driver code.
Make
cd ~/src/IARC-1.0/DRIVER/astropci/3.0/PCIe/E6.0_x32/
make clean
make
Allocating Image Buffer Memory
You need to block out some RAM from the linux kernal so the driver can use it for image
memory. Bigdog has 8GB, and on a normal boot 'free -m' reports total 7860.
I want to block out 128MB.
I did "dmesg | grep BIOS-e820" to look for usable RAM, and this line:
BIOS-e820: 0000000020200000 - 0000000040000000 (usable) start=514M end=1024M size=510M
show a big block of RAM at 512M. I put this in /boot/grub/menu.lst:
"memmap=128M$514M" to block out 128M at 514M.
After a reboot, free -m total is now 7487 (that's 128M free'ed)
Notes:
CL did: mem=3072M on nsf2pc P45/Q9550CPU/4GB RAM.
memmap=128M$0x0000000100000000 on nsf2pcbu B75/i5-2400/8GB RAM ???
memmap=320M$0x0000000100000000 on armitag DELL T5600 (C600/E5-2603/4GB)
Later had trouble with iarc version 1.0 (only worked when loading iarc_server after
a fresh reboot), so I took away everything above 3GB on bigdogh (B75/i5-2400/8GB RAM):
free -m = 7540
memmap=5606M$3072M // take away everything above 3GB....
free -m = 2905
This worked VERY WELL - computer was stable.
Install driver
UnLoad_AstroPCIe // unloaded current driver
Load_AstroPCIe
4. H2RG DSP Code - BIGDOG only
DSP code for H2RG - located in /home/iarc/src/IARC-1.0/H2RG/H2RG.DSP.SpeX
This H2RG.DSP uses hg for source code management.
Clone:
install -d /home/bigdog/src/IARC-1.0/H2RG/ // create dest dir
cd /home/bigdog/src/IARC-1.0/H2RG/
hg clone ssh://iarc@iarc.ifa.hawaii.edu/src/IARC-1.0/H2RG/H2RG.DSP.SpeX
Make
cd ~/src/IARC-1.0/H2RG/H2RG.DSP.SpeX
tim
Update:
hg pull // pull changes from iarc repository to the local repository.
hg update // update the local working copy
5. Aladdin DSP Code - Guidedog only
DSP code for Aladdin- located in /home/iarc/src/IARC-1.0/ALBL_DSP/
This ALBL_DSP uses hg for source code management.
Clone:
install -d /home/gd/src/IARC-1.0/ // create dest dir
cd /home/gd/src/IARC-1.0/
hg clone ssh://iarc@iarc.ifa.hawaii.edu/src/IARC-1.0/ALBL_DSP
Make
cd ~/src/IARC-1.0/ALBL_DSP
tim
Update:
hg pull // pull changes from iarc repository to the local repository.
hg update // update the local working copy
6. IARC Server - BIGDOG and GUIDEDOG
cfitsio
iarc needs CFITSIO from the IARC tree:
cd ~/src/IARC-1.0
cp -Rp /home/iarc/src/IARC-1.0/cfitsio . // copies cfitsio library (local copy)
cd ~/src/IARC-1.0/cfitsio
make clean; make
CArcDevice
iarc needs CArcDevice source from the iarc tree This is a modifed version,
and CArcDev is managed by hg. To clone
install -d ~/src/IARC-1.0/ARC_API/src/ARC_API/3.0/CArcDevice
cd ~/src/IARC-1.0/ARC_API/src/ARC_API/3.0
hg clone ssh://iarc@iarc.ifa.hawaii.edu/src/IARC-1.0/ARC_API/src/ARC_API/3.0/CArcDevice
iarc_server
Clone:
install -d ~/src/IARC-1.0/ // create dest dir
cd ~/src/IARC-1.0/
hg clone ssh://iarc@iarc.ifa.hawaii.edu/src/IARC-1.0/iarc
Compile:
iarc
make [iarc_server | al]
HG hints:
(MAKE CHANGES - now push changes back to iarc)
hg commit -u bigdog - commit change to your working directory.
hg push - upload changes to iarc's repository.
TO UPDATE YOU COPY WITH NEW IARC CODE:
hg pull - pull changes from iarc repository
hg update - to update your local working copy.
7. WebGUI - BIGDOG and GUIDEDOG
WebGUI source is managed by hg. To clone
install -d ~/src/IARC-1.0
cd ~/src/IARC-1.0/
hg clone ssh://iarc@iarc.ifa.hawaii.edu/src/IARC-1.0/WEBGUI
8. Parint Device Driver
Parint is a IRTF written driver for the PC parallel port to timestamp data.
Original code copied from /home/s2/src/drivers/parint.
Copy the driver from iarc
cd ~/src/IARC-1.0 // create the directory if necessary
cp -Rp /home/iarc/src/IARC-1.0/DRIVER . // copie device driver code.
Make - see the README.html file, or do this:
cd ~/IARC/DRIVER/parint
make -f makefile.apps clean // cleans all files
make // makes the driver
make -f makefile.apps // makes the test applications
Install
See the 'manual installation' instruction in the README.html file.