Re: [CXP][RFC] pick POSIX/cobalt for the common user API

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

Dear Philippe,

In message <87mtyr1abi.fsf@xenomai.org> you wrote:
> 
> The common Xenomai platform specification is about defining the
> commonalities among future Xenomai releases starting from 3.3, including
> the Xenomai 4 series based on a next generation (EVL) core. A common API
> available to applications for issuing requests to the real-time core is
> part of this specification.
>
> Implementing such interface would not preclude other APIs from
> co-existing in particular releases. However, use of this common API
> only would guarantee portability across releases.
>
> Excluding the legacy RTOS emulators such as VxWorks and pSOS, Xenomai
> 3.x provides two main APIs, a POSIX-compliant one (libcobalt) and a
> custom RTOS API aka Alchemy (libalchemy) on top of the Copperplate
> interface.
>
> PROPOSAL: Pick libcobalt as the common API defined by the CXP.

Sonds good to me - ACK!

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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