# FreeRTOS porting Steps **URL:** \ **Category:** Kernel\ **Created:** [October 10, 2012, 7:26am UTC](https://forums.freertos.org/t/freertos-porting-steps/3629 "2012-10-10T07:26:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![system](https://d2v6vdsk2p900z.cloudfront.net/original/1X/7fc8fdb729c645aab5b20282bbe34e57cb407be6.jpeg) [@system](https://forums.freertos.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 7:26am UTC](https://forums.freertos.org/t/freertos-porting-steps/3629/1 "2012-10-10T07:26:56Z")
**[sangu-lisa](https://sourceforge.net/u/sangu-lisa/)** wrote on [Wednesday, October 10, 2012](https://sourceforge.net/p/freertos/discussion/382005/thread/a43e6ab3/#66ca): Dear All, I am new to porting of FreeRTOS. Can somebody tells me the basic step wise procedure of porting FreeROTS on a microcontroller Regards Lisa ---
**Author:** ![rtel](https://d3iykfbgfh8zhg.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.freertos.org/rtel/32/31_2.png) [@rtel](https://forums.freertos.org/u/rtel)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 7:49am UTC](https://forums.freertos.org/t/freertos-porting-steps/3629/2 "2012-10-10T07:49:18Z")
**[rtel](https://sourceforge.net/u/rtel/)** wrote on [Wednesday, October 10, 2012](https://sourceforge.net/p/freertos/discussion/382005/thread/a43e6ab3/#86db): [http://www.freertos.org/Creating-a-new-FreeRTOS-project.html](http://www.freertos.org/Creating-a-new-FreeRTOS-project.html) [http://www.freertos.org/porting-a-freertos-demo-to-different-hardware.html](http://www.freertos.org/porting-a-freertos-demo-to-different-hardware.html) [http://www.freertos.org/FreeRTOS-porting-guide.html](http://www.freertos.org/FreeRTOS-porting-guide.html) Regards. ---
**Author:** ![jwestmoreland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@jwestmoreland](https://forums.freertos.org/u/jwestmoreland)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 10:02pm UTC](https://forums.freertos.org/t/freertos-porting-steps/3629/3 "2012-10-12T22:02:58Z")
**[westmorelandeng](https://sourceforge.net/u/westmorelandeng/)** wrote on [Friday, October 12, 2012](https://sourceforge.net/p/freertos/discussion/382005/thread/a43e6ab3/#b21c): Lisa, In general, the single most important thing you can do first is getting your main (possibly only) timer interrupt working and verifying that it works.  Blinking an LED at a standard rate and using a stopwatch to verify is a good step too - or just toggling an I/O and watching it on a scope to verify you have your basic timing working is the first, most important step, IMHO. Good Luck - FreeRTOS is a lot of fun! John W. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://d2v6vdsk2p900z.cloudfront.net/original/1X/7fc8fdb729c645aab5b20282bbe34e57cb407be6.jpeg) [@system](https://forums.freertos.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 6:43am UTC](https://forums.freertos.org/t/freertos-porting-steps/3629/4 "2012-10-15T06:43:29Z")
**[sangu-lisa](https://sourceforge.net/u/sangu-lisa/)** wrote on [Monday, October 15, 2012](https://sourceforge.net/p/freertos/discussion/382005/thread/a43e6ab3/#7b7b): Dear John, is there a demo application for the same you mentioned ? i have asked a question regarding same. ( reply no 12) in [https://sourceforge.net/projects/freertos/forums/forum/382005/topic/5999440/index/page/1](https://sourceforge.net/projects/freertos/forums/forum/382005/topic/5999440/index/page/1) please suggest me. Regards Lisa ---
**Author:** ![rtel](https://d3iykfbgfh8zhg.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.freertos.org/rtel/32/31_2.png) [@rtel](https://forums.freertos.org/u/rtel)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 6:34pm UTC](https://forums.freertos.org/t/freertos-porting-steps/3629/5 "2012-10-19T18:34:12Z")
**[rtel](https://sourceforge.net/u/rtel/)** wrote on [Friday, October 19, 2012](https://sourceforge.net/p/freertos/discussion/382005/thread/a43e6ab3/#756b): Lisa, Sorry - didn’t know you’d replied. What hardware do you have? There’s a PC app you can try - maybe you should start there. Have you downloaded the example code in SVN? Regards, John