RTEMS: A beginner...

[Joel Sherrill]

Camilo Alejandro Arboleda wrote:

> You can get used to the api and the tool chain using POSIX BSP
> This BSP allows you to run RTEMS on top of any POSIX compatible OS, 
> inculding linux and windows with cygwin.

The POSIX/UNIX BSP can't support some of the services since they
conflict with the native UNIX services the BSP is written in terms
of.  That BSP was written before CPU simulators were commonly available
and now I would recommend to anyone using RTEMS to have at least
one of the simulator BSPs at their disposal.

The BSPs for simulators that should be of the most general use are:

   + powerpc/psim (sim in gdb)
   + sparc/erc32  (sim in gdb)
   + mips/jmr3904 (sim in gdb)
   + i386/pc386   (Bochs)

Any others?

--joel


> If you plan to hack the kernel of create your own drivers, bosch is a 
> good idea
> 
> eric.valette at free.fr wrote:
> 
>> Till Straumann wrote:
>>
>>> Alex wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> My name is Nuno Costa, I am a computer science student, from 
>>>> Portugal, in the Msc degree.
>>>> I would like to make a research for my Msc using the RTEMS kernel...
>>>>
>>>> This will be my first 'contact' with RTEMS.
>>>>
>>>> I would like to receive some help from people who knows RTEMS if it 
>>>> is possible...
>>>>
>>>> I would like to start from the beginning... any advices?
>>>>
>>>> My target platform is intel 86...
>>>>
>>>> My first doubt is: is it possible to install RTEMS kernell with a 
>>>> shell?
>>>>
>>> As a hard-real time kernel, RTEMS needs complete control over your 
>>> machine including
>>> interrupts, MMU etc, hence it is not possible to start RTEMS from a 
>>> linux shell like bash or tcsh.
>>>
>>> Usually, an ELF capable bootloader is used to start RTEMS on a x86 
>>> PC. I have used GRUB
>>> to comfortably boot RTEMS.
>>>
>>> If you happen to have a PC with an eepro100 ethernet card, I could 
>>> provide a precompiled
>>> binary of a generic RTEMS system...
>>
>>
>>
>> Note that starting RTEMS via bosch emulator is very handy and avoid 
>> the need to reboot... I do demo like this of RTEMS on my laptop 
>> including chnage in the code recompilation and restart...
>>
>>
> 


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