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The documentation grew one page at a time, so the tree follows the
history of who wrote what and not the shape of NuttX. Scheduling is
spread over three places, a driver page can sit above the subsystem
that owns it, and the front page lists everything at the same level.
That is a lot to face when all you want to know is where the scheduler
lives.
This change files every page under the code it describes. It is a move,
not a rewrite: outside the ten pages named below, every page keeps the
text that is already in master, and no page's text is deleted.
What it does:
* Groups the table of contents into nine chapters.
* Moves the OS subsystems under os/: scheduling, memory, drivers,
filesystem, networking, IPC, interrupts, libs, time.
* Renames the platform pages to the names the source tree uses, and
derives their tags from the tree instead of by hand.
* Splits guides/ by subject.
* Adds Documentation/redirects.py, with a rule for every page that left
its old path, so old URLs keep working. The redirect page also carries
a link's #anchor across to the new page.
Ten pages have text that is new or rewritten. Nine of them are the
landing page of a chapter, which has to exist for the new structure:
index the front page
os/index OS Design
os/scheduling/index Scheduling
os/interrupts/index Interrupts
os/ipc/index IPC
os/time/index Time and timers
about/index About
developing/index Developing NuttX
ReleaseNotes/index Release notes
The tenth is os/libs/libbuiltin, the only page here with technical
content: libs/libbuiltin/ had no page at all. Five SVG diagrams come
with these pages, hand-written XML with no editor metadata.
Nothing outside Documentation/ is touched.
How it was checked:
* Sphinx builds with -W: no warnings, and no document left outside a
toctree.
* A script, offered in the PR, proves the narrow claim this rests on.
For every page outside the ten named above it erases what a move
touches -- link target, path, tag line, toctree block, table border --
from the whole old text and the whole new text, and requires the two
to be byte for byte identical. It also requires every sentence of a
deleted page to turn up somewhere, and every page that left its old
path to have a redirect, from a URL that existed, to where its content
went. It exits non-zero and names the page if any of that is not true,
and it tests added pages too, so forgetting to declare one cannot make
it pass.
* An independent audit checked 133 factual claims on these ten pages
against the tree, one shell command per claim: 130 confirmed, 1
refuted and fixed here, 2 not checkable.
* tools/checkpatch.sh is clean over the range.
The diff is large because moving a page changes every link that points
to it. Most of it is pure renames, and board pages that gained one tag
line.
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===================
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NuttX Documentation
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===================
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NuttX is a real-time operating system (RTOS) with an emphasis on standards
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compliance and small footprint. Scalable from 8-bit to 64-bit microcontroller
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environments, the primary governing standards in NuttX are POSIX and ANSI
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standards. Additional standard APIs from Unix and other common RTOS’s (such as
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VxWorks) are adopted for functionality not available under these standards, or
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for functionality that is not appropriate for deeply-embedded environments (such
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as fork()).
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Where to start
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==============
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.. grid:: 1 2 2 3
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:gutter: 3
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.. grid-item-card:: :octicon:`rocket;1.2em;sd-text-primary` Getting Started
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:link: quickstart/index
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:link-type: doc
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Install the toolchain, build for a board, get a shell.
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Start here if you have never built NuttX.
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.. grid-item-card:: :octicon:`cpu;1.2em;sd-text-primary` Supported Platforms
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:link: platforms/index
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:link-type: doc
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Every architecture, chip and board NuttX runs on.
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Start here if you have hardware in your hand.
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.. grid-item-card:: :octicon:`checklist;1.2em;sd-text-primary` Guides
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:link: guides/index
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:link-type: doc
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How to do a particular thing: port, write a driver, debug.
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Start here when you know what you want to build.
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Understanding the system
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========================
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.. grid:: 1 2 2 3
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:gutter: 3
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.. grid-item-card:: :octicon:`stack;1.2em;sd-text-primary` OS Design
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:link: os/index
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:link-type: doc
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How NuttX is built, subsystem by subsystem.
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.. grid-item-card:: :octicon:`book;1.2em;sd-text-primary` API Reference
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:link: reference/index
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:link-type: doc
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The POSIX and NuttX calls an application may make.
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.. grid-item-card:: :octicon:`apps;1.2em;sd-text-primary` Applications
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:link: applications/index
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:link-type: doc
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The programs that ship with NuttX, from NSH onwards.
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Working on NuttX
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================
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.. grid:: 1 2 2 2
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:gutter: 3
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.. grid-item-card:: :octicon:`tools;1.2em;sd-text-primary` Developing NuttX
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:link: developing/index
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:link-type: doc
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Getting a change accepted, the build system, porting, testing.
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.. grid-item-card:: :octicon:`info;1.2em;sd-text-primary` About
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:link: about/index
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:link-type: doc
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Questions, vocabulary, security reports, release notes.
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How this documentation is organised
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===================================
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Four ideas decide where anything goes. They are written down here because
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knowing them turns "where do I look?" into a question with an answer -- and,
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for anyone writing documentation, "where do I put this?" as well.
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**The sections follow what you are doing, not what NuttX contains.**
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Arriving, finding your hardware, doing a task, understanding a subsystem,
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looking up a call: those are different activities, and each has a section.
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Guides comes before OS Design on purpose, because people want something
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running before they want to know how the scheduler works.
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**Three different questions, three different sections.** It is the same
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subject seen three ways, and mixing them is what makes documentation hard to
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search:
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.. list-table::
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:header-rows: 1
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:widths: 22 30 48
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* - Section
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- Answers
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- For example
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* - :doc:`Guides <guides/index>`
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- *How do I do X?*
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- How to mount a ROMFS image at ``/etc``
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* - :doc:`OS Design <os/index>`
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- *How does X work?*
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- How the scheduler picks the next thread
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* - :doc:`API Reference <reference/index>`
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- *What may I call?*
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- What ``sched_setscheduler()`` takes and returns
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**OS Design follows the source tree.** Each top level directory of NuttX --
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``sched/``, ``fs/``, ``net/``, ``mm/``, ``drivers/`` -- is a section, and
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each subsystem is described once, going from what it is, to how it works, to
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the interfaces it offers. That is why there is one page about SMP rather
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than three, and why a contributor knows which page to add to.
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**What can be derived is derived, and checked.** Board pages, the
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architecture and chip each one is filed under, and the tags that let you
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search for them all come from the source tree rather than being typed by
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hand, and the build fails when the two disagree. A page describing a board
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that no longer exists, or a board with no page, does not survive the next
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pull request.
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.. note::
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Something wrong on a page, or missing? The documentation lives in the
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same repository as the code, and every page has an *Edit on GitHub* link
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at the top right. See :doc:`contributing/documentation` for how to build
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it locally.
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.. toctree::
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:caption: Table of Contents
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:maxdepth: 2
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:hidden:
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Home <self>
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introduction/index.rst
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quickstart/index.rst
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platforms/index.rst
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guides/index.rst
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os/index.rst
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reference/index.rst
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applications/index.rst
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developing/index.rst
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about/index.rst
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.. include:: substitutions.rst
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