RTEMS build process

[joel at OARcorp.com (joel at OARcorp.com)]

On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Tim Drury wrote:

> > I agree.  Ralf's work is part of a trend to move RTEMS toward GNU
> > standards like automake and multilib.  We want to eventually have a "BSP
> > Kit" where you can build the BSP without being inside the RTEMS tree.
> > This requires work.
> > 
> 
> YES!  This is what I want. 

For things like this to come about there needs to be work on it.  There
are two ways to get this: volunteer and/or sponsor the work.

NT support is a good example.  All effort on NT has been volunteer. I have
willingly merged stuff supporting NT but there has bene no sponsorship
that would accelerate this process.

>  I'm trying to do this now with a 332 board I've built and will try and
> market.  All the hardware and software will be open-source and I'm
> working on the BSP.  It should be pretty close to the EFI332 BSP, but it
> would be nice to have a documented procedure for everything a BSP-writer
> is responsible for. 

--joel
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