Replacing VxWorks with RTEMS

[brad chisholm]

Hi Ali,

This sounds good, is this 3 man months duration? We already have the
wrappers which should save some time.

Regards
Brad

Ali Asgar Nasir wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We have changed the RTOS in one of our application to RTEMS. It took us
> around three months to do the same. We have implemented wrapper functions
> around the original OS calls which we had in our legacy OS. This makes the
> code changes in the actual application to minimum. We just then link the
> wrapper's to the OS calls in the application and remove the legacy OS's
> libraries.
> U need to be clear about the memory mapping and all hardware related stuff
> of your target. It will make the changeover smooth.
> 
> Regards
> Ali
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> brad chisholm
> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 3:56 PM
> To: rtems-users at rtems.org
> Subject: Replacing VxWorks with RTEMS
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I am currently investigating the possibility of replacing VxWorks with
> RTEMS in an existing product that has been released to customers.
> 
> I am trying to get a feel for the length of time the change will take,
> can anyone give practical advice on the length of time it has taken them
> to get RTEMS running on a target platform and then to replace an
> existing RTOS with RTEMS.
> 
> - We use a predominantly posix interface into the RTOS.
> - For a guide to system complexity, we run approximately 50 threads
> concurrently, use semophores, mutexes and signals. There are hard
> real-time deadlines and we use 3rd party stacks.
> 
> Thank you for any information
> Regards
> Brad
> 
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