17. Glossary#

ABI#: Application Binary Interface
Architecture#: Family or class of processor based around a common instruction set. RTEMS architectures follow the GCC architecture model as RTEMS needs an GCC architecture compiler for each support RTEMS architecture.
APA#: Arbitrary Processor Affinity
API#: Application Programming Interface
Binutils#: GNU Binary Utilities such as the assembler as, linker ld and a range of other tools used in the development of software.
BSP#: Board Support Package is a specific configuration RTEMS can be built for. An RTEMS install process installs specific library and headers files for a single BSP. A BSP optimises RTEMS to a specific target hardware.
Buildbot#: A continuous inteagration build server.
C11#: ISO/IEC 9899:2011
C++11#: ISO/IEC 14882:2011
Crosscompiler#: A compiler built to run on a Host that generate code for another architecture.
DLL#: Dynamically Linker Library used on Windows.
EDF#: Earliest Deadline First
EMB²#: Embedded Multicore Building Blocks
FAT#: File Allocation Table
Futex#: Fast User-Space Locking
IMFS#: In-Memory File System
JFFS2#: Journalling Flash File System version 2
GCC#: GNU Compiler Collection
GDB#: GNU Debugger
GNU#: GNU’s Not Unix
Host#: The computer and operating system that hosts the RTEMS development tools such as the compiler, linker and debugger.
MinGW#: Minimal GNU system for Windows that lets GCC built programs use the standard Windows operating system DLLs. It lets you build native Windows programs with the GNU GCC compiler.
MinGW64#: Minimal GNU system for 64bit Windows. MinGW64 is not the MinGW project.
MrsP#: Multiprocessor Resource-Sharing Protocol
MSYS2#: Minimal System 2 is a fork of the MinGW project’s MSYS tool and the MinGW MSYS tool is a fork of Cygwin project. The Cygwin project provides a POSIX emulation layer for Windows so POSIX software can run on Windows. MSYS is a minimal version that is just enough to let configure scripts run. MSYS has a simplified path structure to make it easier to building native Windows programs.
NFSv2#: Network File System version 2
OMIP#: \(O(m)\) Independence-Preserving Protocol
OpenMP#: Open Multi-Processing
POSIX#: Portable Operating System Interface is a standard that lets software be portable between compliant operating systems.
prefix#: A path used when building a package so all parts of the package reside under that path.
RFS#: RTEMS File System
RSB#: RTEMS Source Builder is part of the RTEMS Tools Project. It builds packages such as the tools for the RTEMS operating system.
RTEMS#: The Real-Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems or RTEMS is an open source fully featured Real Time Operating System or RTOS that supports a variety of open standard application programming interfaces (API) and interface standards such as POSIX and BSD sockets.
SMP#: Symmetric Multiprocessing
Target#: A target is the hardware or simulator a BSP built executable runs on.
Test Suite#: See Testsuite
Testsuite#: RTEMS test suite located in the testsuites/ directory.
TLS#: Thread-Local Storage
Waf#: Waf build system. For more information see http://www.waf.io/
YAFFS2#: Yet Another Flash File System version 2