RTEMS 4.11 Internals Manual from Luca Bonato

[Joel Sherrill]

Awesome!

Is the source available so we have a chance to keep it up to date?

On Oct 17, 2016 7:39 AM, "Sebastian Huber" <
sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Luca Bonato created an RTEMS Internals Manual for RTEMS 4.11 and kindly
> allowed to share this document. It is available here:
>
> https://ftp.rtems.org/pub/rtems/people/sebh/rtems-4.11-inter
> nals-manual-luca-bonato.pdf
>
> From the introduction:
>
> "This document aims to help in understanding the inner structure and inner
> working of the RTEMS kernel. This document is aimed to developers who are
> interested in discovering the  kernel of RTEMS  and that are  not familiar
> with
> it:  this  manual should accompany them (step by step) by showing the most
> important features of the OS (namely scheduler, semaphores, messages and
> events).
>
> The  kernel of RTEMS  is  big,  and in  this  document only a little
> subset
> of it is  ex- plained. This document focuses on the time-composable
> version of
> RTEMS produced at the  University of Padua  based on  the work-in-progress
> RTEMS  4.11  at commit 40d24d54ab59fdb2e4133128bf184ec8935f3545 (April
> 2015).
> The focus is on the SMP personality of the kernel (which is only a proof of
> concept in version 4.11), and specifically targets the fixed-priority
> scheduler
> and the RTEMS API (no POSIX).
>
> However, even if it is focused on a specific version of RTEMS, this
> document
> should reveal useful even for the master branch of RTEMS-SMP.  Some
> discrepancies are to be expected, but the core concepts should still hold.
> Moreover, some topics are not considered because subjected to rapid change
> (e.g., consistency and synchronization inside the kernel) or because too
> platform specific (e.g., interrupts)."
>
> --
> Sebastian Huber, embedded brains GmbH
>
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>
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>
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