Completed RTEMS Getting Started Task (Hello World modification)

Hello,

My name is Saksham Balsane.

I followed the RTEMS Quick Start guide and successfully built RTEMS 7
with the SPARC ERC32 BSP.

I modified the hello world example located at:

testsuites/samples/hello/init.c

to print:

“Hello from The Dark Side!”

I rebuilt RTEMS and ran the test on the ERC32 simulator.

Screenshot of the output is attached below.

Patch:

From 47313095111ee52901eb0f67f2819632fb9283e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Saksham Balsane sakshambalsane19@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:48:32 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] testsuites/hello: modify hello world output message


testsuites/samples/hello/init.c | 2 ±
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/testsuites/samples/hello/init.c b/testsuites/samples/hello/init.c
index 76b939818a…76a9f85514 100644
— a/testsuites/samples/hello/init.c
+++ b/testsuites/samples/hello/init.c
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ static rtems_task Init( rtems_task_argument ignored )

rtems_print_printer_fprintf_putc( &rtems_test_printer );
TEST_BEGIN();

  • printf( “Hello World\n” );
  • printf(“Hello from The Dark Side!\n”);
    TEST_END();
    rtems_test_exit( 0 );
    }

    2.53.0

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