BSP Buildset for EPICS

The development of the freely available, open-source, RTEMS, solved one of the biggest obstacles that beamline researchers used to face in buying commercial Real Time operating systems that used EPICS base software. However, with both EPICS and RTEMS gearing up for their latest stable releases, i.e, EPICS7 and RTEMS5 respectively, they should be made fully compatible to ensure continuous support in the newer versions. This project aims to solve this problem and create a vertically integrated BSP Build Set which will be able to create a bootable BSP image with EPICS7+RTEMS 5 that can run in a simulator. RTEMS provides RTEMS Source Builder which is a tool to build packages from source and adding packages like EPICS to the RSB as libraries is called vertical integration. This project will create build sets that stack library dependencies vertically to create a stack. The main goals of this project are to make progress for some low-barrier simulation approaches like qemu/i386, qemu/xilinx_zynq and powerpc/psim used by EPICS community and then later on move to real hardware systems.