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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.rst b/CONTRIBUTING.rst index 0ea66946..1bcdca31 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.rst +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.rst @@ -9,6 +9,28 @@ goal of the LibBSD is to stay in synchronization with FreeBSD. This is only feasible if certain rules are in place. Otherwise, managing more than a thousand imported source files will become too labour intensive eventually. +The LibBSD makes FreeBSD subsystems like TCP/IP, USB, SD/MMC, PCIe, and some +more usable for RTEMS. It tries to follow the FreeBSD development as close as +possible and therefore is updated to the latest FreeBSD HEAD revision of the +associated FreeBSD branch from time to time. To find out which version of +FreeBSD is currently used as the base version for LibBSD please take a look at +the ``freebsd-org`` submodule. + +This guide captures information on the process of merging code from FreeBSD, +RTEMS specific support files, general guidelines on what modifications to the +FreeBSD source are permitted, and some other topics. For building the library, +see the `README <README.rst>`_. + +Goals of the LibBSD activity are + +* provide functionality from FreeBSD to RTEMS, +* ease updating to future FreeBSD versions, +* ease tracking changes in FreeBSD code, +* minimize manual changes in FreeBSD code. + +We will work to push our changes upstream to the FreeBSD Project and minimize +changes required at each update point. + What is in the Git Repository ============================= |