8 August 2008 This is the source distribution for RTEMS 4.7.3, add-ons, and documentation. The primary development platforms supported are GNU/Linux distribtions which use RPMs. The 4.7.3 release is the third release in the 4.7.3 series. It includes all bug fixes found in the 4.6 series along with a number of enhancements and bug fixes since the 4.7.2 release. The bugs fixed along with some of the enhancements included between the 4.6 and 4.7 release series are listed at: http://www.rtems.org/rtems-4.7/index.html Specific issues addressed between 4.7.2 and 4.7.3 are listed in the file PRs-closed-4.7.3. For Fedora users, loading the prebuilt tools should be very easy and something like this: (1) Load the appropriate Yum repository configuration information. # Replace NNN with your 1-8 to reflect the Fedora version # Replace ARCH with your i386 or x86_64 to reflect your host architecture rpm -ivh ftp://ftp.rtems.org/pub/rtems/linux/4.7/fedora/NNN/ARCH/rtems-4.7-yum-conf-0.10-1.fcNNN.noarch.rpm (2) Load cross development RPMs for your target architecture along with the RTEMS 4.7 specific version of GNU autoconf and automake. # Replace CPU with the name of the CPU architecture you # want to use RTEMS on. Choice are: # arm avr h8300 i386 m68k mips powerpc sh sparc yum -y install "*4.7*CPU*" "*4.7*auto*" That's it. You should be able to configure and build RTEMS at the point. If targeting a simulator BSP included with GDB (sparc/sis, powerpc/psim, or mips/jm43904), it is possible to be able to install the tools, build RTEMS and run target executables in a matter of minutes. Configuring qemu so that it will boot an RTEMS application for the i386/pc386 takes a bit longer but is still quite straightforward. Normally it takes longer to download the tools via ftp than to build RTEMS. Comments, feedback welcomed. See the instructions at http://www.rtems.org on joining the users mailing list. --joel sherrill joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com