RTEMS 4.6.4 On-Line Library

RTEMS Release Notes

3.1: RTEMS Executive Status

Release 4.6.4 of the RTEMS Executive contains support for both the classic RTEMS API based on the RTEID specification as well as support for POSIX threads and real-time extensions.

The classic RTEMS API has the following managers based upon the RTEID specification:

• Task
• Initialization
• Clock
• Timer
• Interrupt
• Fatal Error
• Message
• Semaphore
• Event
• Signal
• Region
• Partition
• Dual Ported Memory
• I/O
• Multiprocessing
• Rate Monotonic
• User Extensions

RTEMS also has support for the following managers based upon the POSIX threads and real-time extensions:

• Thread
• Clock
• Key
• Condition Variable
• Mutex
• Signal
• Scheduler

This release of the C implementation supports the following processors and target boards:

• Motorola M68k family
  • DY-4 DMV152, SVME153
  • Motorola IDP
  • Motorola MVME135, MVME136
  • Motorola MVME147, MVME147S
  • Motorola MVME162
  • EFI 68000 and 68332
  • Generic 68302
  • Generic 68360 and 68360 in companion mode with 68040
• Intel i386 family
  • Force CPU386
  • Intel i386ex eval board
  • PC-AT i386 and above (go32)
• Intel i960 family
  • Cyclone CVME960, CVME961
• Hewlett Packard PA-RISC family
  • Processor Simulator
• PowerPC
  • Papyrus (proprietary controller)
• SPARC
  • ERC32 (space-hardened V7)
• MIPS
  • P4000 with R4600 or R4650
• AMD 29K
  • Portsw
• UNIX
  • Hewlett Packard HPUX (PA-RISC)
  • Sun Solaris 2.x (SPARC)
  • Linux (i386)

Support for the Cygnus NEWLIB Standard C Library is provided with this release which may be used on any of the RTEMS supported targets. The BSPs only provide support for console I/O only using this library. Support for the reentrancy capabilities of newlib is provided in the RTEMS distribution.

RTEMS Release Notes

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