Notes from meeting of May 21.

B. Clark has volunteered to code the modules that get the MIB booted:
1) an assembler program to move the system image from flash to RAM and
begin execution; 2) an RTOS task to copy a system image to flash; and
3) a Unix/Windows program to send a system image to that task.

B. Sahr reports that the development boards have arrived.  W. Koski is
making a daughter attachment to provide the ethernet PHY level, needed
before sending the board to the RTOS vendor for porting the RTOS.
B. Sahr has a copy of the documentation that came with the board, and
offers to share.  G. Peck has moved much of it into
/home/asg/evla/doc/vendor/Infineon.

K. Ryan suggested a plan for proceeding from this point.  He suggests
using the currently existing device called the CMP, which is a MVME162
running vxWorks that talks to the current VLA communications device,
the SLC.  This device was developed nearly to a useful form, and then
work was put into abeyance about a year ago.  He proposes purchasing
a Motorola MVME2700 or equivalent processor, to communicate with the
MVME162 over the VME bus shared memory, and arranging for a copy of the
MIB RTOS to run in the MVME2700.  This would permit starting software
development and testing very soon on the 'device' class and related
items.  Much of the software needed for this will also be required at
some point in the transition plan, so there is not much "throwaway
software" to take this route.