RTEMS Release Snapshot: 5.0.0-m2004 (02 Apr 2020)

[Chris Johns]

Hi Alan,

This is awesome. I welcome deployment stories and support for them. I 
wonder if we need a way to assist capturing this for our users.

You may need to add something to the site's README to provide beginner 
steps.

Chris

On 2020-04-07 11:44, Alan Cudmore wrote:
> Chris,
> I tested this release on the Raspberry Pi (Zero), Raspberry Pi 2,
> Beaglebone Black with LibBSD, xilinx_zynq_a9_qemu, and partially on
> the leon3. ( samples all work on Leon3 QEMU, but I'm still configuring
> my application )
> 
> To help generate tools and BSPs for releases like this, I created a
> series of Dockerfiles to generate a base system, Add tools, then build
> BSPs. I was learning docker, and I thought generating release
> candidate images might be a good exercise :)
> 
> Here are the Dockerfiles in case anyone is interested:
> https://github.com/alanc98/rtems-release-docker
> 
> To use these, create the "rtems5-m2004-base" image first, then for the
> ARM tools, the "rtems5-m2004-arm-tools" image. Finally, you can create
> an image like "rtems5-m2004-arm-bbb" to build the RTEMS BSP and
> rtems-libbsd for the Beaglebone Black.
> 
> The resulting Docker image will allow you to build RTEMS applications
> that are shared through the "/host" directory in the container.
> 
> With these, I hope to be able to crank out a series of builds for the
> targets I'm interested in for future releases.
> 
> I'm also working on integration of my RTEMS Kernel Image (RKI) with
> rtems-libbsd. I have it working on the Beaglebone black and the
> zynq_a9_qemu target. That is a work in progress here:
> https://github.com/alanc98/rki2
> All of the above targets work except for the leon3 right now. (
> Raspberry Pi targets are not libbsd)
> 
> Alan
> 
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 6:13 AM <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:
>>
>> RTEMS Release Build - 5.0.0-m2004
>>
>> RTEMS 5 Release snapshot m2004 is avaliable for testing.
>> It can be found at:
>>
>>   https://ftp.rtems.org/pub/rtems/releases/5/5.0.0/5.0.0-m2004
>>
>> Please test and report any issues to the user at rtems.org or devel at rtems.org
>> mailing lists or please raise a ticket.
>>
>> If you are part of the RTEMS testing program please build on your preferred
>> host posting build and BSP test results to build at rtems.org.
>>
>> This is a development release and may have errors and be unstable.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Chris
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