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diff --git a/user/tools/index.rst b/user/tools/index.rst index 5441d76..d77a7ca 100644 --- a/user/tools/index.rst +++ b/user/tools/index.rst @@ -1,11 +1,23 @@ .. comment SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0 -.. comment: Copyright (c) 2016 Chris Johns <chrisj@rtems.org> +.. comment: Copyright (c) 2017 Chris Johns <chrisj@rtems.org> .. comment: All rights reserved. -RTEMS Tools -*********** +Tools +***** -The RTEMS kernel is cross-compiled on host computers and linked to 3rd party -packages and application code and run on target hardware. This section details -how to build asuitable cross-compiler and how to use the tools. +The RTEMS kernel is developed on a host computer where the user's application +code is cross-compiled to the target hardware's processor instructions and +linked to the RTEMS kernel and language runtime libraries, and any 3rd party +packages. RTEMS is not a multiprocess operating system and self hosting the +types of tools need to create executables is not feasable. As a result a range +of support tools are needed and they need run on the wide range of avaliable +host computers users wish to develop on. This section details the tools +available on host computers RTEMS users and developers need to create RTEMS +executables. + +.. include:: linker.rst +.. include:: symbols.rst +.. include:: exeinfo.rst +.. include:: trace-linker.rst +.. include:: bsp-builder.rst |