17.1. Introduction

The Partition Manager provides facilities to dynamically allocate memory in fixed-size units. The directives provided by the Partition Manager are:

• rtems_partition_create() - Creates a partition.

• rtems_partition_ident() - Identifies a partition by the object name.

• rtems_partition_delete() - Deletes the partition.

• rtems_partition_get_buffer() - Tries to get a buffer from the partition.

• rtems_partition_return_buffer() - Returns the buffer to the partition.