The road map of RT-Thread 1.2.0

[bernard]

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/workqueue.h?v=NETBSD

[3] rwlock: http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/sys/rwlock.h?v=NETBSD

[4] select API: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/select.html

[5] dual IPv4/v6 stack: http://lwip.wikia.com/wiki/LwIP_IPv4/IPv6_stacks