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From: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] Support for 2.6.19
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To: Detlef Vollmann <dv@domain.hid>
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Detlef Vollmann wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> the x86 branch supports kernel 2.6.19, but the ARM branch only supports
> 2.6.15.  Is there a specific reason for this?
> Does anybody have a feeling what would be needed to be changed
> for 2.6.19 support?

I guess the reason is that it is some work that needs to be done. I had
ported from 2.6.15 to 2.6.17, it was a trivial task as far as I could
see, but never tried to port to 2.6.19. There were some architectural
changes in 2.6.19, I do not know about their impact on the ARM
architecture though.

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                                                 Gilles Chanteperdrix