| 1 | = Timeline = |
| 2 | |
| 3 | = Events in 2006 = |
| 4 | |
| 5 | |
| 6 | * ADI Blackfin port submitted by Alain Schaefer. |
| 7 | * Altera NIOS II port submitted by Kolja Waschk. |
| 8 | * 4.7 branch forked. |
| 9 | * SPARC LEON3 BSP submitted by Gaisler Enterprises. |
| 10 | = Events in 2005 = |
| 11 | |
| 12 | |
| 13 | * Eric Norum of Argonne National Laboratory submits the uC5282 BSP for the Arcturus Networks uC DIMM ColdFire 5282 board. |
| 14 | * Radstone EmPower EP1A which also supports the Radsone Empower PMCQ1 high speed serial and MIL-STD-1553 PMC. |
| 15 | * GP32 BSP for the GamePark handheld device submitted by Philippe Simons |
| 16 | * PCI Bus Unified API completed. |
| 17 | * IRQ Unified API completed. |
| 18 | * All PowerPC BSPs except those for 4xx-based boards are using the new exception model. |
| 19 | = Events in 2004 = |
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| 21 | |
| 22 | * RTEMS Wiki launched. |
| 23 | * Motorola MVME2100 sponsored by Eric Norum of Argonne National Laboratory. |
| 24 | * MVME5500 BSP submitted by Kate Feng of Brookhaven National Laboratories |
| 25 | * Intec Automation SS555 BSP written by David Querbach of Real-Time Systems Inc. This work was sponsored by the Defence Research and Development Canada - Suffield. He notes that the BSP is largely based on the mbx8xx ports, with some floating-point code from the mpc8260 port. |
| 26 | * Jay Monkman submitted a number of BSPs for Cogent boards including the ARM-based CSB336 and CSB337, the MC68360-based CSB360, and the MIPS-based (AMD Au1100) CSB350. |
| 27 | = Events in 2003 = |
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| 29 | |
| 30 | * NFS client for RTEMS released |
| 31 | * CEXP released. CEXP is a C-expression interpreter with integrated symbol table access and object file loading. |
| 32 | * GoAhead Webserver updated to 2.1.4 |
| 33 | * ncurses updated to 5.3 in RTEMS Add-On Packages |
| 34 | = Events in 2002 = |
| 35 | |
| 36 | |
| 37 | * DOS (FAT12, FAT16, FAT32) Filesystem support added |
| 38 | * ARM port completed and passes networking tests on user board. |
| 39 | * Till Straumann publishes a latency benchmark comparing RTLinux, RTEMS, and VxWorks |
| 40 | * libtecla 1.4.1 ported to RTEMS as part of Add-On Packages |
| 41 | * GNU readline 4.3 ported to RTEMS as part of Add-On Packages |
| 42 | * Multicast Dissemination Protocol (MDP) ported to RTEMS |
| 43 | * NTP-4.1.1a ported to RTEMS |
| 44 | * GNAT merged into main FSF GCC source repository. This lead to the following activities: |
| 45 | o Released GNAT/RTEMS on SPARC and PowerPC using gcc 3.1. |
| 46 | o GNAT/RTEMS on i386 support added with release of gcc 3.2. |
| 47 | o GNAT/RTEMS on MIPS support added with release of gcc 3.2.1. |
| 48 | * Added soft float multilibs on i386-rtems gcc toolset |
| 49 | = Events in 2001 = |
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| 51 | |
| 52 | * Existing MIPS port reworked to better support more MIPS variants. |
| 53 | * MIPS JMR3904 simulator BSP added. |
| 54 | * Victor Vengerov of Oktet submitted a BSP for the ColdFire MCF5206eLITE evaluation board. |
| 55 | * RTEMS Project begins using GNATS to track issues. |
| 56 | * RTEMS Steering Committee formed. |
| 57 | = Events in 2000 = |
| 58 | |
| 59 | |
| 60 | * Binaries for more hosts (Solaris, Cygwin, FreeBSD) and Ada95 |
| 61 | * ARM, Hitachi H8, and Texas Instruments C3x/C4x ports added |
| 62 | * ncurses 5.2 ported to RTEMS as part of Add-On Packages |
| 63 | * Reorganization initiated for CPU and BSP Kit. |
| 64 | = Events in 1999 = |
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| 66 | |
| 67 | * GNU avl 1.4.0 ported to RTEMS as part of Add-On Packages |
| 68 | * ITRON 3.0 support added |
| 69 | * PPPD added |
| 70 | * General BSP for Motorola Computing PowerPC boards added. This BSP supports VMEbus, CompactPCI, and no-bus boards. |
| 71 | * C/C++/Java development tool binaries for Linux (RPM and Debian) |
| 72 | * Initial In-Memory Filesystem (IMFS) support added |
| 73 | = Events in 1998 = |
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| 75 | |
| 76 | * Release 4.0.0 with stable POSIX threads and FreeBSD TCP/IP |
| 77 | * OAR becomes primary distributor of RTEMS |
| 78 | * Hitachi SH port and Filesystem infrastructure added |
| 79 | = Events in 1997 = |
| 80 | |
| 81 | |
| 82 | * Mailing lists established |
| 83 | * GNAT/RTEMS validated on SPARC/ERC32 |
| 84 | * First support for GNU autoconf and TCP/IP |
| 85 | * Adopt FSF General Public License with exception |
| 86 | = Events in 1996 = |
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| 88 | |
| 89 | * Release 3.6.0 last Army release, first useable POSIX 1003.1b threads support |
| 90 | * AMD A29K and MIPS ports submitted |
| 91 | = Events in 1995 = |
| 92 | |
| 93 | |
| 94 | * Release 3.5.0 includes submitted port to PowerPC |
| 95 | * Release 3.5.01 adds ESTEC sponsors SPARC/ERC32 port |
| 96 | * Release 3.2.0 includes two submitted BSPs (IDP and MVME162) |
| 97 | * Release 3.1.10 includes sponsored port to Hewlett-Packard PA-RISC |
| 98 | * Project adopts GNU CVS for source code control |
| 99 | * Initial POSIX 1003.1b support added |
| 100 | * Documentation converted to GNU TeXinfo |
| 101 | * Cygnus gives away floppy with RTEMS source at Embedded Systems Conference |
| 102 | = Events in 1994 = |
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| 104 | |
| 105 | * Release 3.1 with multiprocessing added to Ada implementation |
| 106 | * Available via anonymous FTP from U.S. Army |
| 107 | = Events in 1993 = |
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| 109 | |
| 110 | * Release 3.0 includes C and Ada implementations, ships with GNU tools on tape |
| 111 | = Events in 1992 = |
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| 113 | |
| 114 | * Release 2.0.1 uses GNU tools only |
| 115 | * Intel i960 port uses GNU tools, m68k GCC benchmarked |
| 116 | * First non-Army RTEMS user (SSCL) |
| 117 | = = Events in 1991 == |
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| 119 | |
| 120 | * Release 1.31 with Intel i960 and Cyclone CVME961 BSP |
| 121 | * Release 1.30 with heterogeneous multiprocessing |
| 122 | |
| 123 | == Events in 1990 == |
| 124 | |
| 125 | |
| 126 | * Intel i386 support added including Force FORCE386 BSP |
| 127 | * First internal U.S. Army Missile Command (MICOM) user |
| 128 | |
| 129 | == Events in 1988 == |
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| 131 | |
| 132 | * U.S. Army Missile Command requests royalty free, standards-based real-time solution with full source |
| 133 | * VITA releases RTEID 2.1 |