Add chapter for newib build in RTEMS Docs

Sebastian Huber sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de
Fri Sep 13 05:10:50 UTC 2019


On 13/09/2019 03:34, Chris Johns wrote:
> On 13/9/19 8:42 am, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 2:09 PM Gedare Bloom<gedare at rtems.org>  wrote:
>>> Hello Vaibhav,
>>>
>>> It would be nice to provide such documentation, but I don't know that
>>> we have an existing location that would be an ideal fit. I think the
>>> topic is out of scope for User Manual. If you are motivated to write
>>> something though, you could prepare it first as a standalone guide.
>> If we have a name for the document like "Maintainers Guide" or something,
>> it could have a focus on procedures that only core developers would need.
>>
>> + bootstrapping newlib and building it independently
>> + modifying gcc, running tests,
>> + submitting Coverity runs
>> + running Doxygen
>> + ...
> These are all valid and important however can these reside in the Software
> Engineering manual?
> 
> We current have ...
> 
>   1. RTEMS Software Engineering
>   2. RTEMS Filesystem Design Guide
>   3. RTEMS Development Environment Guide
>   4. RTEMS BSP and Driver Guide
> 
> plus 'RTEMS BSP and Driver Guide' which I am not sure about. All these cover
> some aspect of maintaining and developing RTEMS. Should we be considering
> consolidation rather than expansion?

Yes, we should definitely aim to consolidate the documentation set and 
not add new documents. I would put this topic into the RTEMS Software 
Engineering.

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