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<!-- Copyright (C) 2003 Red Hat, Inc. --> <!-- This material may be distributed only subject to the terms --> <!-- and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v1.0 --> <!-- or later (the latest version is presently available at --> <!-- http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/). --> <!-- Distribution of the work or derivative of the work in any --> <!-- standard (paper) book form is prohibited unless prior --> <!-- permission is obtained from the copyright holder. --> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Documentation Roadmap</TITLE ><meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.76b+ "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="eCos User Guide" HREF="ecos-user-guide.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Introduction" HREF="user-guide-introduction.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Version Conventions" HREF="version-conventions.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Installing eCos" HREF="user-guide-installation.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="CHAPTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >eCos User Guide</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="version-conventions.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="user-guide-installation.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="CHAPTER" ><H1 ><A NAME="DOCUMENTATION-ROADMAP">Chapter 5. Documentation Roadmap</H1 ><P >The <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >eCos</SPAN > documentation is divided into a three main parts:</P ><P ></P ><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT ><SPAN CLASS="emphasis" ><I CLASS="EMPHASIS" >User Guide</I ></SPAN ></DT ><DD ><P >This document. It includes the following sections:</P ><P ></P ><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT >Installing <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >eCos</SPAN ></DT ><DD ><P > This section describes how to install the <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >eCos</SPAN > software, how to set up your hardware and how to test that it is all working. </P ></DD ><DT >Programming Under <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >eCos</SPAN ></DT ><DD ><P > This section describes how to write programs that run under <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >eCos</SPAN > by running through some examples. </P ></DD ><DT >The <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >eCos</SPAN > <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >Configuration Tool</SPAN ></DT ><DD ><P > This section describes the <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >eCos</SPAN > graphical configuration tool and how to use it to change how <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >eCos</SPAN > behaves.</P ></DD ><DT ><SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >eCos</SPAN > Programming Concepts and Techniques</DT ><DD ><P >An explanation of the <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >eCos</SPAN > programming cycle, and a description of some debugging facilities that <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >eCos</SPAN > offers. </P ></DD ><DT >Configuration and the Package Repository</DT ><DD ><P >Information on how to configure <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >eCos</SPAN > manually, including a reference on the <B CLASS="COMMAND" >ecosconfig</B > command, memory layouts, and information on how to manage a package repository using the <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >eCos</SPAN > Package Administration Tool. </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DD ><DT ><SPAN CLASS="emphasis" ><I CLASS="EMPHASIS" >Reference Guide</I ></SPAN ></DT ><DD ><P >The Reference Guide provides detailed documentation on various aspects of <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >eCos</SPAN >. This document is being constantly updated, so the following list just mentions the more important sections, take a look at the guide itself for the full story.</P ><P ></P ><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT >The <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >eCos</SPAN > Kernel</DT ><DD ><P >In-depth description of <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >eCos</SPAN >"s native C kernel API Important considerations are given for programming the <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >eCos</SPAN > kernel. The semantics for each kernel function are described, including how they are affected by configuration. </P ></DD ><DT >POSIX and µITRON APIs</DT ><DD ><P >A description of the POSIX and µITRON APIs and how they are supported under <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >eCos</SPAN >. </P ></DD ><DT >The <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >eCos</SPAN > Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL)</DT ><DD ><P >A description of the structure and functionality of the <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >eCos</SPAN > HAL. This section also includes a porting guide to help moving <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >eCos</SPAN > to different platforms. </P ></DD ><DT >Device Drivers</DT ><DD ><P >A description of the philosophy behind <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >eCos</SPAN > device drivers, as well as a presentation of the C language APIs for using the current device drivers. </P ><P > Device driver support includes serial, ethernet and FLASH devices, and support for PCI, PCMCIA and USB interconnects. </P ></DD ><DT >RedBoot User's Guide</DT ><DD ><P >This describes RedBoot, which provides a complete bootstrap environment for a range of embedded operating systems, such as embedded Linux and <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >eCos</SPAN >, and includes facilities such as network downloading and debugging. It also provides a simple flash file system for boot images. </P ></DD ><DT >TCP/IP Stack Support</DT ><DD ><P >This describes the Common Networking for <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >eCos</SPAN > package, which provides support for a complete TCP/IP networking stack. The design allows for the actual stack to be modular and at the current time two different implementations, one based on OpenBSD from 2000 and a new version based on FreeBSD, are available. </P ><P >Other components related to networking, including support for SNMP, DNS, HTTP and FTP, are also described. </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DD ><DT ><SPAN CLASS="emphasis" ><I CLASS="EMPHASIS" >Component Writer's Guide</I ></SPAN ></DT ><DD ><P >The Component Writer's Guide is intended for developers who need to add or modify parts of <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >eCos</SPAN > itself. It describes the following things:</P ><P ></P ><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT >Overview</DT ><DD ><P >An explanation of the configuration technology used in <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >eCos</SPAN >, why it is done this way, how it works and the terminology used. </P ></DD ><DT >Package Organization</DT ><DD ><P >A description of the <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >eCos</SPAN > package repository, how it is organized and how packages themselves are organized. </P ></DD ><DT >The CDL Language</DT ><DD ><P >A description of the CDL language and how it is used to control the configuration of <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >eCos</SPAN > components. The document also contains a complete specification of the language. </P ></DD ><DT >The Build Process</DT ><DD ><P >A description of what happens once a configuration has been created and must be built into a set of executables. </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="version-conventions.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ecos-user-guide.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="user-guide-installation.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Version Conventions</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="user-guide-introduction.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Installing <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >eCos</SPAN ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >
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