Beginner Questions

[Arun Govind]

 Thanks for the quick reply. I just want to familiarize myself with the RTEMS development environment first. For that I plan to buy a board that has full compatibility. I know tis' better to learn how to resolve incompatibilities, but at least I think if not every, some beginner would face the same question and that's why I posted this question.
thank you for all your response
Arun
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On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 08:41:04  
 Joel Sherrill wrote:
>
>
>Arun Govind wrote:
>> 
>> I've heard that RTEMS BSP contains all the needed drivers for a particular board. And the mailing list contains a number of queries regarding driver related issues on particular boards. Again as a beginner, which port is known to have less such issues with boards?
>
>This is the embedded world.  There is no cut and dry answer.  Systems
>are
>assembled in a custom fashion to meet the application/system
>requirements
>at the least cost/power/weight.  In this environment, there is no
>hardware
>that is not needed in a fielded system.  
>
>If you pick a self-contained embedded board with little expansion
>capabilities
>like the MRM332, then the BSP contains everything you can use.  If
>you choose a highly expandable board as the starting point, then
>everything
>on the "base board" is probably supported but not every expansion
>capability.
>For example, there are 1000s of PCI boards.  The RTEMS PC386 BSP
>supports 
>basic PC functionality but it is easy to pick an unsupported peripheral
>board.
>Similarly, many VMEbus and CompactPCI single board computers have BSPs
>which
>support the entire functionality on that board.  But I could add a
>peripheral
>board or PCI mezzanine module and easily find that is not supported.
>
>This philosophy is not RTEMS specific, it is a fact of life in the
>embedded
>world.  I have consulted to projects on OS and hardware selection that
>found
>themselves having to balance which OS and version to use to result in
>the
>least development of new device drivers. 
>
>So the question is.. what do YOU really want to do as an application and
>what do YOU need?
>
>--joel
>
>> thanks
>> Arun
>> --
>> 
>> On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 08:11:34
>>  Joel Sherrill wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >Arun Govind wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>   I am new to this group as well as to RTEMS development. I have used the i386-rtems using my pc as the target and now preparing to move to a 'real' board. Can anyone suggest which processor and board I should opt for? Or which board is 'most commonly' used for RTEMS development?
>> >> I need all the necessary drivers for the board in the specific BSP.
>> >
>> >You can just link them with your executable and either put them in the
>> >device driver
>> >configuration table or dynamically install them using
>> >rtems_io_register_driver.
>> >
>> >> thanks
>> >> Arun
>> >>
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