From 9d709f59bd025ce4bcf874309168f779aeacb10e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joel Sherrill Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 14:10:22 +0000 Subject: Added BSP chapter to FAQ. --- doc/FAQ/bsp.t | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/FAQ/bsp.t (limited to 'doc/FAQ/bsp.t') 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. + + + -- cgit v1.2.3