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Introduction
============

The Initialization Manager is responsible for initializing the Board Support
Package, RTEMS, device drivers, the root filesystem and the application.  The
:ref:`RTEMSAPIClassicFatal` is responsible for the system
shutdown.

The Initialization Manager provides only one directive:

- :ref:`rtems_initialize_executive`