4.9 Branching Point and Help Request

[joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com (Joel Sherrill)]

Hi,

I would like to branch 4.9 in late June if
all goes well.  So if you have new BSPs or
other changes you want to see in 4.9.0,
start talking and starting submitting.

There are things the community can do to
help get us to 4.9.0 faster.

+ Test the BSPs you have hardware for and
  update the Wiki page with information
  and a "it's OK" report. 

+ Pitch in on BSP maintenance by updating BSPs
  to use the shared BSP code that might not
  have existed when the BSP was written.
  SPARC/ERC32 and PowerPC/psim are good examples.

  (1) the clock driver template
  (2) the new modification that lets shared code
      in bootcard.c split memory between the
      RTEMS Workspace and C Program Heap AND
      initialize the C Library.
  (3) add nanoseconds since tick support

Many hands and many eyes help make RTEMS better.

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