rtmk User and Developer Documentation

A free real-time microkernel

For version 0.2, 4 February 2002

• Introduction
  • Basic kernel functionality
• Kernel Interface
  • Tasks - The execution environment
    • The running task
    • Creating tasks
    • Task information
    • Task's special ports
  • Threads - the basic execution unit.
    • The executing thread
    • Controling threads
    • Reply ports
    • Special ports
    • Thread states
    • Setting priority
  • Ports - The communication channel
    • Allocating ports
    • Destroying ports
    • Migration control
    • Sending and receiving messages
  • Virtual memory management
    • Locking memory
    • Mapping a memory object
    • Copying memory between tasks
  • Exception handling
  • Kernel error codes
• Message-based communicaton
  • Basic concepts
• Intel 80386 Dependent Features
  • Application Binary Interface Related
  • Machine-dependent thread states
  • Booting the kernel
• Function Index

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