RTEMS, Bootloaders and HW parameters

[Wolfram Wadepohl]

Chris Johns schrieb:

> Thomas, have you consider something like the sysctl MIB approach but 
> simpler. It is thread safe and can grow as needed by linking in 
> different object files how-ever that is achieved. It supports complex 
> structures like tables, eg more than one timer, NIC or reset/watchdog 
> device, and you can iterate in a structured way. I am not saying you 
> have create a sysctl for RTEMS, but I think some of the ideas may be 
> useful.
> 
> I think this API is important and support the push to have one.

Apart from having parameters from bootloaders available for RTEMS drivers 
this may also be a solution for many embedded systems to hold system wide 
parameters and distribute it to different modules and subsystems

I appreciate a "(configuration) parameter database", whatever technology it 
  will use as a standard component in RTEMS. We use a flat structure with 
ASCII names and simple data types like string, int, float since over 15 
years and there is a growing need for structured layout, i. e. hierachical 
namespace, aggregate types, like arrays and structures.

We would support efforts toward such a database, the APIs and the methods. 
The use is much wider than an interface between bootloaders and BSP/drivers.

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