RTEMS SS-20030128 available

[Jack Cawkwell]

Well I do feel guilty that I am not contributing by testing out the CD
image.
My only excuse can be that it took possibly 9 hours to download, over
several
different sessions at different places. And also I have not yet been able
to
build the whole system (from any source) successfully yet; although I am
familar
with Unix/Linux and regularly reconfigure my Linux kernel for various
purposes.

The last CD did not build and I think that some tool versions were wrong.
I cleared out all the old versions using commands like rpm -q -a | grep
rtems,
and then removing anything detected; I am pretty sure I removed everything.

So any feed back from some one who can confirm that the latest CD is OK
will be very welcome,

Thanks, Jack

Don.Pogoda at wpafb.af.mil writes:
>
>
>With all these forks, spoons, knives, patches, snapshots, photos,
>branches, trees, limbs, etc, etc, it sure would be nice if someone would
>come up with an app note which, at the very least, provides references on
>how to understand all these concepts.  Ideally, it would describe how to
>maintain your development environment in detail.  Especially considering
>the various downloadable versions of 4.5 on the web site (i.e. the actual
>4.5.0 link, the CD-Working version, etc, etc).  
>
>While the RTEMS documentation is pretty clear on the installation process
>from a given distribution (except where you are given untar instructions
>to uncompress a .bz2 file :) ), I am certainly lost on how all this other
>stuff.  Maybe a case of trying to learn RTEMS at the same time as trying
>to learn Linux!
>
>For what it is worth ....... 
>
>Don
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Joel Sherrill [mailto:joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com]
>Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 9:04 AM
>To: Jack Cawkwell
>Cc: rtems-users at oarcorp.com
>Subject: Re: RTEMS SS-20030128 available
>
>
>
>
>Jack Cawkwell wrote:
>> 
>> Has the cd image been tested? I mean, has anyone taken the cd image
>> and on a clean machine, loaded the rpms' and source and successfully
>> built RTEMS?
>
>That hasn't been done by OAR yet.  At this point around here, it would
>take doing a fresh install on a machine.  Even my laptop is polluted
>in this sense.
>
>Any feedback on this before we get to it would be definitely valuable.
>
>--joel
>
>> Cheers, Jack
>> 
>> joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com writes:
>> >
>> >A new RTEMS snapshot is available.  I hope this is the last snapshot
>> >before a release branch is forked.  It is available in
>> >
>> >ftp://ftp.oarcorp.com:/pub/rtems/cd-working
>> >ftp://ftp.oarcorp.com:/pub/rtems/snapshots/rtems/current
>> >
>> >A number of nits fixed, loopback network test added to samples,
>> >and BSD sysctl() interface supported for the TCP/IP stack.  This
>> >allows the standard SNMP package to work with RTEMS.  The BSP Howto
>> >has been updated to reflect use of automake and the Getting Started
>> >has the versions updated.
>> >
>> >A few of the Ada binding tests link and run now but the Makefiles
>> >need some magic before they all will.
>> >
>> >Feedback greatly appreciated.  I am mentally setting a timer and
>> >if there are no bad reports, when it goes off the release branch
>> >is forked.
>> >
>> >FWIW I am not merging the API change to rtems_io_register_name.
>> >It will be a post release item.
>> >
>> >--
>> >Joel Sherrill, Ph.D.             Director of Research & Development
>> >joel at OARcorp.com                 On-Line Applications Research
>> >Ask me about RTEMS: a free RTOS  Huntsville AL 35805
>> >Support Available                (256) 722-9985
>> >
>