The road map of RT-Thread 1.2.0

The document is the mainly task of RT-Thread 1.2.0. In this series, there will be a full manual document for RT-Thread 1.x series. The format of document is markdown document on github.com and some hardware environment is used in document (RT-Thread Real-Touch[1]).

The document will write in Chinese firstly, at least when RT-Thread 1.2.0 officially released, the Chinese edition of manual is ready. The manual includes:

• RT-Thread Kernel (The basic facilities in RTOS)
• How to port RT-Thread in a new architecture.
• RT-Thread components.
• How to debug in RT-Thread.

Others changes in planning:

Improvement on bsp porting:

• LPC18xx & LPC43xx

  • USB host and device driver;

• Other BSP.

  • welcome contributions.

New features on components:

• device IPC

  • implement the work queue[2].
  • implement the rwlock[3].
  • The APIs are like *BSD, but implement in RT-Thread

• finsh shell

  • implement a UNIX style shell, and this shell can execute application module.

• device file system

  • implement select[4] API for device object in RT-Thread.

• lwIP TCP/IP stack

  • enable IPv6 feature[5].

• gdb server or stub

[1] RT-Thread Real-Touch: https://github.com/RT-Thread/realtouch-stm32f4
[2] work queue: http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/sys/wo … h?v=NETBSD
[3] rwlock: http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/sys/rwlock.h?v=NETBSD
[4] select API: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/79 … elect.html
[5] dual IPv4/v6 stack: http://lwip.wikia.com/wiki/LwIP_IPv4/IPv6_stacks