Organization of the Report

The report is devided into four parts. Each part deals with the different aspects of RTKER . Each part has various chapters expalining in detail

• Part I : Concepts

  This part discusses the important theoritical concepts behind RTKER

  • Chapter 2 discusses the reason behind the scheduler API.
  • Chapter 3 discusses the interrupt handling of RTKER
  • Chapter 4 discusses the device driver framework of the RTKER and explains how does it enable to easily port device drivers.
• Part II : User Manual

  This part discusses the API of RTKER for the application developer

  • Chapter 5 discusses the thread library API
  • Chapter 6 discusses the semaphore library API
  • Chapter 7 discusses the methodology of defining a custom scheduler. It aslo explains the deadline detection framework of rtker
• Part III : Kernel Implementation

  This part discusses the implementations of the variuos kernel APIs

  • Chapter 8 discusses the implementation framework of the whole kernel
  • Chapter 9 discusses the implementation details of the thread library
  • Chapter 10 discusses the implemetation details of the semaphore library
  • Chapter 11 details the profiling information of varoius kernek function calls
• Part IV : Applications

  This part discusses some applications based on RTKER

  • Chapter 12 discusses the mpeg streaming application and the utilily of scheduling API in this application

Finally, chapter 13 conludes the thesis and discusses some future work.

This thesis can be read in sequence. But in case a reader wants to read the thesis just for aiding him in develping application then he may skip part III. Else if the reader wants to develop the kernel itself then he may skip partIV.