OS Development Infrastructure Information: Table of Contents

Getting started

• The Getting Started Guide
• Get The OS Source
• Build The OS Source
• Using What You Built
• Understanding the Source Tree
• A developer's getting started guide : source tree layout | picking a dev env | build targets | staging areas

Contributing to the OS

• Report bugs ... Request features ... Contribute new code
• QNX Best Practises
• QNX Coding Standard
• OS Team Development Guidelines

Debugging

• Debugging the Kernel
• Kernel Debugging and the IDE
• VMWare and Kernel Debugging
• QEMU and Neutrino
• Debug Malloc
• Kernel Instrumentation as a debug tool
• Common Causes of Kernel Crashes

Build

• Build The OS Source
• Understanding the Neutrino Build Process
• Regular test builds: Tinderbox Contents
• Using the Momentics IDE to build the Kernel

Tricky Dev Topics

• How to port to a new CPU

User Documentation:

• System Architecture Guide
• User's Guide
• Programmer's Guide
• Building Embedded Systems
• Utilities Reference
• Library Reference

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