June 2010

ViewCVS Updated (and now called ViewVC)

Sometimes we don't realize how much time has passed since we last worked on something. In this case it was viewcvs.cgi. Chris Johns reported that it was crashing under certain conditions. A quick review said that we had a version dated 1999. It apparently served us well and quietly for 11 years. A lot has changed in those 11 years. Now many of the web packages we used to install by hand are available as RPMs. So the old version has been removed and a standard RPM version installed. This has broken all URLS using the old installation.

SPARC V9 Support Added to CVS Head

Today marks a new phase in the life of RTEMS, as we introduce the first 64-bit processor family, the SPARC V9 (sparc64). Gedare Bloom (GSOC 2010 student) and Eugen Leontie (husband of GSOC 2009 student) have worked diligently to port RTEMS to the SPARC V9 CPU and have provided two BSPs that support the UltraSPARC T1 and UltraSPARC III processors.