The hello and ticker applications are useful when first bringing up a new board support package. The base_mp test is useful when performing initial checkout on a new MPCI layer.

The following describes each of the sample applications:

base_mp

  This is a very simple two node multiprocessor application.  It consists
  of a single initialization task on each node which print out
  their respective node numbers and task IDs.  This test can be
  used as a simple test of a new MPCI layer because it minimizes
  the number of packets sent by RTEMS.

  This is intended as a starting point for custom developed multiprocessor
  applications.

base_sp

  This is a simple single processor application which consists of
  an initialization task which creates another task.

  This is intended as a starting point for custom developed single
  processor applications.

capture

  This simple application starts the monitor and allows you access
  to the capture engine. The capture engine provides a trace of
  RTEMS activity and is used to debug your application.

cdtest

  A very simple C++ application which demonstrates that it is
  possible to use C++ contructors and destructors in an RTEMS
  application.  Also does a perfunctory iostream test.

hello

  This is the RTEMS version of the classic hello world program.
  It consists of single initialization task which prints out
  a few messages.

  This test does not include a Clock Tick device driver and can
  be used to test the startup code of the board support package
  as well as console output.

paranoia

  A public domain test of the floating point and math library
  capabilities of a toolset.  It reports discrepancies between
  actual and expected results.  It is a large test.

ticker

  This is a simple test of the user's Clock Tick device driver.
  This test has an initialization task create three application
  tasks which sleep and periodically wake up and print the time.

unlimited

  This is a test for the umlimited object feature of RTEMS. Here
  you can configure RTEMS to give as many objects as memory
  in the Workspace.