From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <437DD08E.1020202@domain.hid> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:01:02 +0100 From: Jan Kiszka MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] v2.1 status References: <437CB8BA.8040902@domain.hid> In-Reply-To: <437CB8BA.8040902@domain.hid> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig92D15F878460C6526341E107" List-Id: "Xenomai life and development \(bug reports, patches, discussions\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Philippe Gerum Cc: xenomai@xenomai.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig92D15F878460C6526341E107 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Philippe Gerum wrote: >=20 > Here is an update regarding the way things progress on the v2.1 branch:= >=20 > o The build system has been deeply revamped, so that we now fully leave= > the burden of building Xenomai's kernel support to Linux. To this end, > the code tree has been reorganized in two major sections, the first one= > contains the kernel-related sources (ksrc/), the other is hosting the > user-space support (src/). Since the user-space portion does not need t= o > know about the kernel sources anymore, several issues have been solved > in the same move. All in all, things are way simpler than before, which= > seems to indicate that we are heading to the right direction. The > documentation for the installation process needs to be updated though. >=20 > o Also as a matter of build system (and a bit more), v2.1 has been > backported to Linux 2.4, starting with the ppc32 support. We rely on > Denx's 2_4-devel tree as our 2.4 kernel of reference for this port [1].= > A second backport to 2.4/x86 will happen when this combo is I-pipe > ready. We are ahead of schedule regarding this backport, since it was > initially planned for Q12006, but since we are going to add more > supported architectures in the next months, it's better to have a stabl= e > build system for that. >=20 > o PowerPC-wise (again), we should be close to ready for 2.6.15, since > Heikki merged both the 32 and 64-bit trees in a single one. >=20 > All other tasks planned are undergoing. For my part, I'm going to fiddl= e > now with ADI's Blackfin for which we already have the required Adeos > support, and create the Xenomai port for it. Since this one is uClinux > based, we should be able to check that the new build system is ok to > host any kind of port sanely. >=20 Question: On recent roadmaps I'm so far missing the topic "RT-signal support in userspace". Are there any concrete schedules (Qx 200y)? I think to remember that you said Adeos would be involved in such an extension. Maybe it would be a good time to think about this also when we extend the Adeos API by shareable IRQs. Jan --------------enig92D15F878460C6526341E107 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDfdCOncNeS9Q0k+IRAgTfAJ9RAlR1YXeN6rrGHMANjf3td+FnrwCff0De 5e4IoMjZ7nhSN9Ke0Os5uZE= =1bNL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig92D15F878460C6526341E107--