This book is intended for all users of ChorusOS products. 

This book documents the procedures for installing, building, and booting ChorusOS system. It describes how to: 

• Install the ChorusOS operating system on a host workstation running the Solaris operating environment.

• Set up a boot server running on the Solaris operating environment.

• Build and boot the ChorusOS operating system on the UltraSPARC, Intel, PowerPC, and MPC8xx supported reference targets.

This document is aimed at system administrators and solution designers. It is the companion volume to the ChorusOS 5.0 System Administrator's Guide.

This book provides information on:

• The major differences between version 4.0 and version 5.0 of the ChorusOS operating system.

• Porting your existing software applications and drivers.

This book is intended for solution designers, application developers, and system administrators. 

This guide describes the features and architecture of the ChorusOS operating system. It serves as a general overview of the architecture of the ChorusOS operating system, presenting its particularities and advantages, as well as introducing all its features and components. 

This guide is intended for all users. 

This guide demonstrates the key tasks developers perform when creating applications to run on ChorusOS systems. It does not cover hardware support such as bus and device driver development, subsystem development, system internals, installation, general system architecture or system administration, though it does incorporate parts of some of these as necessary to illustrate specific aspects of ChorusOS application development. 

This book is intended for application developers and describes how to build applications using the range of ChorusOS APIs through code examples. 

This guide presents the source-level debugging architecture of the ChorusOS operating system. It provides an overview of the GNU GDB debugger and of the Insight graphical user interface, and highlights the modifications to these tools that are specific to the ChorusOS operating system. It discusses the use of these tools to debug ChorusOS applications and systems. 

This book is intended for application developers. 

This guide provides a single source of information for an installed ChorusOS system. It contains information on using ChorusOS product, including configuring and tuning information, with instructions on the configuration of the system image. The setting up and sharing of file systems is also explained. This guide provides full explanations of network commands and daemons, and advice on setting up a ChorusOS 5.0 system for Ethernet and PPP. 

This book is intended for system administrators of a ChorusOS system. 

This guide describes how to install, configure, and build the source code delivery of the ChorusOS product. It explains both the source architecture and the way the product is built from source code. It also deals with issues such as how to perform source development in such a way that the delivery can still be patched as fixes and improvements to the system become available. 

This book is intended for ChorusOS specialists performing source development. 

This book provides a single guide for developers that are porting the ChorusOS system to a new hardware platform, or adding device support to the ChorusOS system. It describes the Board Support Package (BSP) architecture and the device driver framework, as well as device driver hardening. 

This book is intended for developers that are involved in ChorusOS hardware support. 

This guide defines the ChorusOS 5.0 product for the UltraSPARC-IIi and UltraSPARC-IIe target processor families. 

The focus of this short target family specific document is to provide accurate and succinct reference information that exhaustively describes what is supported for a given hardware platform. It does not include procedures to build a ChorusOS system. Such information can be found in the ChorusOS 5.0 Installation Guide.

This document does not replace a support contract that describes what is supported for a specific customer. 

This book is intended for solution designers, and may serve for ChorusOS evaluation purposes. 

This guide defines the ChorusOS 5.0 product for the x86/Pentium target processor family. 

The focus of this short target family specific document is to provide accurate and succinct reference information that exhaustively describes what is supported for a given hardware platform. It does not include procedures to build a ChorusOS system. Such information can be found in the ChorusOS 5.0 Installation Guide.

This document does not replace a support contract that describes what is supported for a specific customer. 

This book is intended for solution designers, and may serve for ChorusOS evaluation purposes. 

This guide defines the ChorusOS 5.0 product for the PowerPC target processor family. 

The focus of this short target family specific document is to provide accurate and succinct reference information that exhaustively describes what is supported for a given hardware platform. It does not include procedures to build a ChorusOS system. Such information can be found in the ChorusOS 5.0 Installation Guide.

This document does not replace a support contract that describes what is supported for a specific customer. 

This book is intended for solution designers, and may serve for ChorusOS evaluation purposes 

This guide defines the ChorusOS 5.0 product for the MPC8xx target micro-controller family. 

The focus of this short target family specific document is to provide accurate and succinct reference information that exhaustively describes what is supported for a given hardware platform. It does not include procedures to build a ChorusOS system. Such information can be found in the ChorusOS 5.0 Installation Guide.

This document does not replace a support contract that describes what is supported for a specific customer. 

This book is intended for solution designers, and may serve for ChorusOS evaluation purposes. 

This Reference Manual describes the routines that are available in the LDAP client library implementation in ChorusOS. 

This Reference Manual details the mathematical functions supplied with the ChorusOS operation system. 

This Reference Manual describes the POSIX library functions available in the ChorusOS operating system.  

This Reference Manual describes the remote procedure calls and RPC library routines of the ChorusOS operating system. 

This Reference Manual describes the standard C functions supplied with the ChorusOS operating system. 

This Reference Manual describes the functions and commands of the TELNETD library API supplied with the ChorusOS operating system. 

This Reference Manual describes the file formats used or read by various programs of the ChorusOS operating system. 

This Reference Manual describes the features and APIs available in the ChorusOS operating system. 

This Reference Manual describes the networking protocols used by the ChorusOS operating system. 

This Reference Manual describes the special device files and services supplied with the ChorusOS operating system. 

This Reference Manual describes all the Device Driver Interfaces that are available in the ChorusOS system. 

This Reference Manual describes the Driver to Kernel Interfaces that are available in the ChorusOS system. 

This Reference Manual describes all the Driver Implementations that are available in the ChorusOS system.