[taste-users] Latest beta of 64bit TASTE9.1 VM

[Thanassis.Tsiodras@xxxxxxx]

Dear all,

The latest beta
of the 64bit TASTE9.1 VM is now available from here:

   
https://download.tuxfamily.org/taste/TASTE-VM-9.1-beta2-64bit.ova

It's size is 3.672.585.216
bytes and its MD5 sum is 4a1fd5db18f9c1365417a0ec425f940b.

Features:

- Requested by
many: this is a 64bit Debian Stretch. Apparently many people needed to
be able to execute 64bit binaries of other applications from within their
VMs - you can now do so. And of course 32 bit applications will also run
just fine (the necessary 32-bit run-time libraries are also installed
in the VM). 
- You login with
"taste"/"tastevm", as usual. The machine's SSH port
is also exported locally to your host at port 2225 - so you can easily
login with PuTTY or any other SSH client.
- The machine
tracks the "TASTE-9.1" branch by default - to be merged in the
"master" branch when we release.
- It comes pre-packaged
with a complete RTEMS 5.1 toolchain, installed under /opt/rtems-5.1-2018.03.08.
 This toolchain is built from RTEMS commit f4794b60f67308599b0ef50cc92a914c58bfb4cf,
with RSB built from commit 10d3aaf467aee6ec6b463cca04ab873e1c18a5dc. Note
that this toolchain was also built with Ada support.
- The VM also
comes with the latest RCC pre-installed (under /opt/rcc-13-rc4).
You can target building with either one of them in the GUI (by choosing
the appropriate deployment target - e.g. gr712rc.rtems51_posix,  n2x.rcc13rc4_posix,
gr740.rtems51_posix - etc) - but keep in mind that RCC doesn't support
Ada. Put simply, if any parts of your system include Ada code (e.g.
if you use SDL for a Functional block), then you can't use an RCC target..
- The bundled
PolyORB contains all the fixes made by ISAE in the last 6 months - including
the RTEMS5.1/RCC compliant, driver-manager-based drivers for SpW, Ethernet
and serial.
- The BSPs in
the /opt/rtems-5.1-2018.03.08 toolchain are all SMP-enabled - i.e. they
can make full use of the 2 cores of a GR712RC, or the 4 cores of N2X/GR740.
- Finally, tool-src/testSuites
contains 50 test projects - and the regression checks pass all of them
(see https://circleci.com/gh/ttsiodras/taste-setup).
This includes projects that use the new RTEMS toolchains to create binaries
for N2X and GR740 (e.g. Demo_Eth_GR740_to_PC, building a distributed
system between a GR740 and a Linux node, using the RTEMS5.1 toolchain).

Please inform
me if you see anything that needs addressing - this is the last beta before
officially releasing TASTE 9.1.

Keep in mind also,
that as explained in our main page (https://taste.tools)
you can always install TASTE natively inside your environment - also via
a chroot or a Docker container - no matter what distribution you are using.
And to be clear:   those of you that are already tracking the "TASTE-9.1"
branch under your "$HOME/tool-src", already have everything inside
this VM - the only difference with this virtual machine is that it's a
64bit one.

On behalf of the
TASTE team,
Thanassis.

Thanassis
Tsiodras
Real-time Embedded
Software Engineer 
System, Software
and Technology Department

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