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author | Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com> | 1999-09-02 14:10:22 +0000 |
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committer | Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com> | 1999-09-02 14:10:22 +0000 |
commit | 9d709f59bd025ce4bcf874309168f779aeacb10e (patch) | |
tree | 2d6bbdd9e9809f20819593b622db65f3ee10b14d /doc/FAQ | |
parent | Link fixed for CPU Supplements. Reported by Jose Vasconcellos (diff) | |
download | rtems-9d709f59bd025ce4bcf874309168f779aeacb10e.tar.bz2 |
Added BSP chapter to FAQ.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/FAQ')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/FAQ/FAQ.texi | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/FAQ/Makefile | 7 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/FAQ/bsp.t | 35 |
3 files changed, 43 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/FAQ/FAQ.texi b/doc/FAQ/FAQ.texi index b65a697bbd..564111c692 100644 --- a/doc/FAQ/FAQ.texi +++ b/doc/FAQ/FAQ.texi @@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY @include basic.texi @include tools.texi @include concepts.texi +@include bsp.texi @include debug.texi @include freesw.texi @include embeddedinfo.texi @@ -85,6 +86,7 @@ Common questions have been divided into the following categories. * Basic Information:: * General Development Tool Hints:: * RTEMS Concepts:: +* BSP Questions:: * Debugging Hints:: * Free Software that Works with RTEMS:: * Resources for Embedded Information:: diff --git a/doc/FAQ/Makefile b/doc/FAQ/Makefile index 0b9f4e75bd..c7388b44fc 100644 --- a/doc/FAQ/Makefile +++ b/doc/FAQ/Makefile @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ dirs: COMMON_FILES=../common/cpright.texi ../common/setup.texi GENERATED_FILES= \ - basic.texi tools.texi concepts.texi debug.texi freesw.texi \ + basic.texi tools.texi concepts.texi bsp.texi debug.texi freesw.texi \ embeddedinfo.texi hwdebugaids.texi FILES=$(PROJECT).texi $(GENERATED_FILES) @@ -75,6 +75,11 @@ concepts.texi: concepts.t Makefile -u "Top" \ -n "" ${*}.t +bsp.texi: bsp.t Makefile + $(BMENU) -c -p "" \ + -u "Top" \ + -n "" ${*}.t + debug.texi: debug.t Makefile $(BMENU) -c -p "" \ -u "Top" \ diff --git a/doc/FAQ/bsp.t b/doc/FAQ/bsp.t new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c5101c062c --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/FAQ/bsp.t @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +@c +@c COPYRIGHT (c) 1988-1998. +@c On-Line Applications Research Corporation (OAR). +@c All rights reserved. +@c +@c $Id$ +@c + +@chapter BSP Questions + +The items in this category provide answers to questions +commonly asked about BSPs. + +@section What is a BSP? + +BSP is an acronym for Board Support Package. + +A BSP is a collection of device drivers, startup code, linker scripts, +and compiler support files (specs files) that tailor RTEMS for a +particular target hardware environment. + +@section What has to be in a BSP? + +The basic set of items is the linker script, bsp_specs, and startup code. +If you want standard IO, then you need a console driver. This is needed +to run any of the RTEMS tests. If you want to measure passage of time, +you need a clock tick driver. This driver is needed for all RTEMS tests +EXCEPT hello world and the timing tests. The timer driver is a benchmark +timer and is needed for the tmtests (timing tests). Sometimes you will +see a shmsupp directory which is for shared memory multiprocessing +systems. The network driver and real-time clock drivers are optional +and not reqired by any RTEMS tests. + + + |