Comtrol eCos - Manual (Page 5)

Table of Contents
I. The eCos Kernel ............................................................................................................................................... xxv
Kernel Overview ............................................................................................................................................ 27
SMP Support .................................................................................................................................................. 35
Thread creation .............................................................................................................................................. 39
Thread information ........................................................................................................................................ 43
Thread control ................................................................................................................................................ 47
Thread termination ......................................................................................................................................... 49
Thread priorities ............................................................................................................................................. 51
Per-thread data ............................................................................................................................................... 53
Thread destructors .......................................................................................................................................... 55
Exception handling ........................................................................................................................................ 57
Counters ......................................................................................................................................................... 59
Clocks ............................................................................................................................................................. 61
Alarms ............................................................................................................................................................ 63
Mutexes .......................................................................................................................................................... 65
Condition Variables ........................................................................................................................................ 71
Semaphores .................................................................................................................................................... 75
Mail boxes ...................................................................................................................................................... 77
Event Flags ..................................................................................................................................................... 79
Spinlocks ........................................................................................................................................................ 83
Scheduler Control .......................................................................................................................................... 85
Interrupt Handling .......................................................................................................................................... 87
Kernel Real-time Characterization ................................................................................................................. 93
II. RedBoot™ User’s Guide ................................................................................................................................. ciii
1. Getting Started with RedBoot ...................................................................................................................... 1
More information about RedBoot on the web ........................................................................................ 1
Installing RedBoot .................................................................................................................................. 1
User Interface ......................................................................................................................................... 2
RedBoot Editing Commands .................................................................................................................. 2
RedBoot Startup Mode ........................................................................................................................... 3
RedBoot Resource Usage ....................................................................................................................... 4
Flash Resources ............................................................................................................................ 4
RAM Resources ............................................................................................................................ 5
Configuring the RedBoot Environment .................................................................................................. 5
Target Network Configuration ...................................................................................................... 5
Host Network Configuration ......................................................................................................... 6
Enable TFTP on Red Hat Linux 6.2 .................................................................................... 7
Enable TFTP on Red Hat Linux 7 (or newer) ..................................................................... 7
Enable BOOTP/DHCP server on Red Hat Linux ................................................................ 7
Enable DNS server on Red Hat Linux ................................................................................ 8
RedBoot network gateway .................................................................................................. 9
Verification .................................................................................................................................. 10
2. RedBoot Commands and Examples ........................................................................................................... 11
Introduction .......................................................................................................................................... 11
Common Commands ............................................................................................................................ 13
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