2008-07-15 Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@oarcorp.com>

* rtems/include/rtems.h, sapi/Makefile.am: Add simple helper to get
	RTEMS version string.
	* sapi/src/getversionstring.c: New file.

cpukit/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2008-07-15	Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@oarcorp.com>
+
+	* rtems/include/rtems.h, sapi/Makefile.am: Add simple helper to get
+	RTEMS version string.
+	* sapi/src/getversionstring.c: New file.
+
 2008-07-10     Peter Rasmussen <Peter.Rasmussen@embedded-brains.de>
 
 	* score/cpu/m68k/cpu_asm.S, cpukit/score/cpu/m68k/rtems/asm.h, 

cpukit/rtems/include/rtems.h

@@ -77,6 +77,15 @@ extern "C" {
 #include <rtems/rtems/support.h>
 #include <rtems/score/sysstate.h>
 
+/**
+ *  @brief Obtain the RTEMS Version String
+ *
+ *  This method may be used to obtain the RTEMS version string.
+ *
+ *  @return This method returns a pointer to the version string.
+ */
+const char *rtems_get_version_string(void);
+
 /**
  *  This constant indicates whether this processor variant has
  *  hardware floating point support.

cpukit/sapi/Makefile.am

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ libsapi_a_SOURCES = src/debug.c src/extension.c src/extensioncreate.c \
     src/exshutdown.c src/io.c src/ioclose.c src/iocontrol.c src/iodata.c \
     src/ioinitialize.c src/ioopen.c src/ioread.c src/ioregisterdriver.c \
     src/iounregisterdriver.c src/iowrite.c src/itronapi.c src/posixapi.c  \
-    src/rtemsapi.c src/extensiondata.c
+    src/rtemsapi.c src/extensiondata.c src/getversionstring.c
 libsapi_a_CPPFLAGS = $(AM_CPPFLAGS)
 
 include $(srcdir)/preinstall.am

cpukit/sapi/src/getversionstring.c

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+/*
+ *  COPYRIGHT (c) 1989-2008.
+ *  On-Line Applications Research Corporation (OAR).
+ *
+ *  The license and distribution terms for this file may be
+ *  found in the file LICENSE in this distribution or at
+ *  http://www.rtems.com/license/LICENSE.
+ *
+ *  $Id$
+ */
+
+#if HAVE_CONFIG_H
+#include "config.h"
+#endif
+
+#include <rtems/system.h>
+
+const char *rtems_get_version_string(void)
+{
+  return _RTEMS_version;
+}