Added architecture diagram to the concepts page.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/chibios/svn/trunk@820 35acf78f-673a-0410-8e92-d51de3d6d3f4

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/docs/src/concepts.dox b/docs/src/concepts.dox
index 360e5f4f2..d8d874bac 100644
--- a/docs/src/concepts.dox
+++ b/docs/src/concepts.dox
@@ -18,9 +18,19 @@
 */

 

 /**

- * @page concepts Concepts

+ * @page concepts Concepts and Architecture

  * @{

  * @brief ChibiOS/RT Concepts and Architecture

+ * - @ref naming

+ * - @ref api_suffixes

+ * - @ref interrupt_classes

+ * - @ref system_states

+ * - @ref scheduling

+ * - @ref thread_states

+ * - @ref priority

+ * - @ref warea

+ * - @ref architecture

+ * .

  * @section naming Naming Conventions

  * ChibiOS/RT APIs are all named following this convention:

  * @a ch\<group\>\<action\>\<suffix\>().

@@ -218,7 +228,7 @@
  *   (inclusive) are reserved. This is the highest numerical value of the

  *   priorities space.

  * .

- * @section warea Thread Working Area

+ * @section warea Threads Working Area

  * Each thread has its own stack, a Thread structure and some preemption

  * areas. All the structures are allocated into a "Thread Working Area",

  * a thread private heap, usually statically declared in your code.

@@ -237,5 +247,18 @@
  * .

  * See the @ref Core documentation for details, the area may change on

  * the various ports and some structures may not be present (or be zero-sized).

+ *

+ * @section architecture Architectural Diagram

+ * The following diagram shows the relationships among the hardware, the

+ * various ChibiOS/RT subsystems and the application code.

+ * <br><br>

+ * @image html arch.png

+ * <br>

+ * In this diagram the device drivers are at the same level of the application

+ * code because both have access to the system services and can directly

+ * access the hardware.<br>

+ * Of course it is possible to create in the application architecture several

+ * extra layers, this is just not part of the kernel architecture but part of

+ * the overall system design.

  */

 /** @} */