Contents

• • Introduction
    • Objectives
    • Brief Overview of RTKER
    • Organization of the Report
  
  
• Concepts
  • Scheduler API
    • Tasks and Processes
  • Interrupt Handling
    • Introduction
    • Framework
      • Interrupt Service Routine
      • Kernel Level Synchronization
    • RTKER's responsiveness to interrupts
    • Summary
  • Device Driver Framework
    • Introduction
    • rtker's Device Driver Framework
      • Motivation
      • Rtker's Device Driver Framework
      • Other Issues
  
  
• User Manual
  • Thread Library
    • Thread Creation
    • Thread Suspend
    • Thread Resume
    • Thread Reset
    • Thread Self
  • Semaphore Library
    • Semaphore Initialization
    • Semaphore Wait
    • Semaphore Signal
    • Semaphore Library & Scheduling API
  • Scheduler API
    • The sched_info structure
    • Scheduler Lock
    • Initialization
    • Creation of Thread
    • Heir Thread
    • Changing Thread Status
    • Resetting & Deleting thread
    • Example Schedulers
    • FIFO Scheduler
    • EDF Scheduler
  
  
• Kernel Manual
  • Implementation Framework
    • Introduction
    • Hardware Dependent Code
      • CPU_Context_Initialize
      • CPU_Context_Switch
      • rtker Initialization
    • Other Porting Issue
  • Threads: Implementation
    • Thread Control Block
    • Thread Library Functions
      • Synchronization
      • The curr_thread pointer
      • Thread Init Function
      • Schedule function
  • Semaphores: Implementation
    • Usage
    • Initialization
    • Semaphore Functionality
    • Implementation
    • Structure Types & Global Variables
    • Summary
  • Profiling
    • Methodolgy
    • Profiling Results
    • Summary
  
  
• Applications
  • Mpeg Streaming
    • Mpeg2 streaming
  • Conclusions & Future Work
  • Context Initialization
    • x86
    • Trimedia
    • Arm
  
  
• Bibliography
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