The good news first: Hello World runs!

To get there you need five steps:

1. Build the rtems-guest example in POK.
2. Copy libpart.a part1/ to virtPok/
3. Build virtPok BSP
4. Copy hello binary to POK partition and rebuild kernel binary
5. make run

1. Build the rtems-guest example

I assume you have checked out my POK fork and ran make configure.

• Change directory to ${POK}/examples/rtems-guest/
• Run make
• Change directory to generated-code/cpu/
• Copy the last line in part1/Makefile and change rules-common in rules-libpart
• Add libpart to TARGET
• Execute ‘make partitions’

2. Copy libpart.a

The last step created a library file called libpart.a in part1/ directory. This file must be moved to RTEMS.

cp ${POK}/examples/rtems-guest/generated-code/cpu/part1/libpart.a \ ${RTEMS}/c/src/lib/libbsp/i386/virtPok/

3. Build RTEMS

Now you are ready to build RTEMS with the virtPok BSP.

• Create a build directory next to your RTEMS directory, I assume it is called ‘b-virtPok’.
• cd b-virtPok
• Configure RTEMS with the following: ../rtems/configure —target=i386-rtems4.11 —enable-rtemsbsp=virtPok —enable-cxx —disable-networking —disable-posix —enable-maintainer-mode
• make

This process will sucessfully build the hello sample, but will fail on the next one.

4. Copy hello sample elf and build the final kernel binary again

The compiled binary is ready to be run as a partition on POK.

Copy the compiled hello.exe ELF binary to replace the partition binary.

cp ${Builddir}/virtPok-i386/c/virtPok/testsuite/samples/hello/hello.exe \

${POK}/examples/rtems-guest/generated-code/cpu/part1/part1.elf

Now we need to generate the partition table again and link the kernel binary again:

• cd ${POK}/examples/rtems-guest/generated-code/cpu/
• make build-kernel

5. Run qemu

Change your directory to ${POK}/examples/rtems-guest/ and execute ‘make run’.