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QNX SDP is a cross-compiling and debugging environment, including an IDE and command-line tools, for building binary images and programs for target boards running QNX Neutrino 7.1.
OS Components & Operations
Migrating to QNX SDP 7.1
Migration Guidelines
This chapter provides tips for specific aspects of moving to the current version of QNX SDP.
Graphics

QNX Momentics IDE User's Guide
This User's Guide describes version 7.1 of the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that's part of the QNX Momentics tool suite.
QNX Software Development Platform
QNX SDP is a cross-compiling and debugging environment, including an IDE and command-line tools, for building binary images and programs for target boards running QNX Neutrino 7.1.
- Quickstart Guide
- OS Components & Operations
  - Adaptive Partitioning User's Guide
  - Boot Optimization Guide
    The Boot Optimization Guide describes techniques you can use to reduce the time from your board's initial power on until you have a fully functional QNX system running on the board.
  - Building Embedded Systems
    The Building Embedded Systems guide is intended for developers who are developing or building BSPs for QNX Neutrino RTOS embedded systems.
  - Core Networking Stack User's Guide
    This guide introduces you to the QNX Neutrino Core Networking stack and its manager, io-pkt.
  - Customizing a BSP
    While QNX provides Board Support Packages (BSPs) for many common platforms and their individual variants, in some cases, you need a BSP for a board that QNX does not provide. If this is the case, you can modify a QNX BSP or develop your own.
  - Device Publishers Developer's Guide
  - High Availability Framework Developer's Guide
  - High-Performance Networking Stack (io-sock) User's Guide
    This guide contains instructions for implementing and using the QNX Neutrino High-Performance Networking Stack and its manager, io-sock.
  - Instant Device Activation
  - Migrating to QNX SDP 7.1
    - Planning Your Migration
    - Migration Guidelines
      This chapter provides tips for specific aspects of moving to the current version of QNX SDP.
      - Board Support Packages
      - Buildfiles
      - Kernel and process manager
      - Graphics
      - Audio
      - Resource Managers
      - QNX Momentics IDE
        QNX SDP 7.1 includes an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that makes it easier to develop, debug, and analyze applications.
  - PCI Server User's Guide
  - Persistent Publish/Subscribe Developer's Guide
  - Platform-independent Publish/Subscribe Developer's Guide
    This guide is intended for application developers who want to use the Platform-independent Publish Subscribe (PiPS) framework to exchange information with other applications. First, the overall PiPS design and data-exchange model are explained. Then, tutorials on using PiPS are given. These tutorials cover key tasks such as selecting a publish-subscribe provider to use and writing plugins that read and write custom data types.
  - QDB Developer's Guide
  - QNX Helpers Developer's Guide
    These libraries provide QNX helpers, including helpers that assist with logging, string conversion, and number and type sizes.
  - SMMUMAN User's Guide
  - System Analysis Toolkit (SAT) User's Guide
  - System Architecture
    The System Architecture guide accompanies the QNX Neutrino RTOS and is intended for both application developers and end-users.
  - Technotes
  - User's Guide
    The QNX Neutrino User's Guide is intended for all users of a QNX Neutrino RTOS system, from system administrators to end users.
- Audio & Graphics API
- Multimedia
- Networking Middleware
- Programming
- Sensor Framework
- System Security Guide
  The QNX System Security Guide is intended for both system integrators who are responsible for the security of a QNX Neutrino RTOS system and developers who want to create a QNX Neutrino resource manager free from vulnerabilities.
- Utilities & Libraries
QNX Hypervisor
The QNX Hypervisor allows you to run multiple OSs on a target system so you can separate critical and non-critical functions, support a wide variety of applications, and reduce hardware costs.
QNX Software in the Cloud
QNX Software in the Cloud enables developers to use the QNX software in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure (Azure).
QNX Advanced Virtualization Frameworks User's Guide
This User's Guide is aimed at all systems integrators and developers who want to design and build embedded systems using the QNX Advanced Virtualization Frameworks.
Typographical Conventions, Support, and Licensing
This section describes the typographical conventions used throughout the documentation and explains how to obtain technical support.

Graphics

QNX SDP 7.1 includes the Screen Graphics Subsystem.

If you're migrating your Screen applications from QNX SDP 7.0:

You need to rebuild your binaries.
In QNX SDP 7.1, you must now call the screen_register_event() function before you call screen_notify() to register the event for asynchronous notification. Otherwise, you won't receive any asynchronous notifications.

The screen_register_event() function registers a sigevent that screen_notify() uses.

When you are no longer using asynchronous notifications, you need to disable the notifications and then remove the event registration. Ensure that the registered event is no longer in use by any Screen object before removing the event registration by calling screen_unregister_event(). We recommend that you call screen_unregister_event() only after you've disabled asynchronous notifications that are using the event you're unregistering. If you remove the event registration while you still have asynchronous notifications using that event enabled, you may not receive any notifications. To disable asynchronous notifications, call screen_notify() with the event argument set to NULL, or its type set to SIGEV_NONE for those notifications that were enabled.
In QNX SDP 7.1, when you're using external buffers and the SCREEN_PROPERTY_FD property to assign the file descriptor to this externally allocated memory, you must now:
- call shm_ctl() to set the SHMCTL_SEAL flag to prevent the shared memory object from being modified.
- ensure that the SHMCTL_REVOCABLE flag is NOT set on your shared memory object. You can call shm_ctl() with the SHMCTL_GET_FLAGS flag to verify which flags have been set on the object that you're using. If the SHMCTL_REVOCABLE flag has been set, you can't associate this object with your buffer.
See Buffers Buffers chapter from the Screen Developer's Guide.
In QNX SDP 7.1, the following Screen utilities are now in the addon package, SDP 7.1 Screen Utilities:
- screencmd
- screeninfo
In QNX SDP 7.1, you'll require the drm-vmwgfx utility for the purpose of working in virtual target environments in VMWare.
In QNX SDP 7.1, if blit-config is set to vivante in your graphics.conf file, you will need to rename it to nxp-g2d.

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