Re: replace a legacy proprietary RTOS (Real-Time executive) with NetBSD!
[email protected] (John Nemeth) Fri, 9 Jan 2009 17:35:20 -0800
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On Jun 1, 7:05pm, Mindaugas Rasiukevicius wrote: } "Thirupathiah Annapureddy" <[email protected]> wrote: } > } > We are evaluating to replace a legacy proprietary RTOS (Real-Time } > executive) with NetBSD as one of the potential and leading candidates. } > } > ... } > } > - Although man pages are good, it is difficult to figure out the what } > kind of APIs it provides for a particular OS service for ex: } > synchronization and communication services, threading services on both } > the kernel and user side. Is there an architecture handbook that be } > quickly browsed to find out such info and later refer to the man pages } > for more info? } } While it would be nice to have a handbook (unfortunately, I do not know any), } manuals provide quite good and up-to-date documentation. Some man pages } describing common kernel interfaces, which may be a ground to start: There is the NetBSD Internals Guide at http://www.netbsd.org/docs/internals/en/index.html . This is a work progress, but may be helpful. }-- End of excerpt from Mindaugas Rasiukevicius