Re: [Xenomai-core] I-pipe/i386 for 2.6.24-rc1 - x86/x86_64 merge to come

[Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>]

Philippe Gerum wrote:
> The I-pipe/i386 has been ported to 2.6.24-rc1, so that we could swallow
> the i386/x86_64 merge which just happened upstream, without having to
> fiddle at the same time with the slew of other core changes which will
> hit the street before 2.6.24 is released. You need the latest trunk/ to
> configure Xenomai for this kernel properly, or at least update those two
> files:
> 
> - scripts/prepare_kernel.sh
> - ksrc/arch/i386/Kconfig.
> 
> Please check if this patch runs your x86 hw reasonably well, while I'm
> busy merging ksrc/arch/{i386, x86_64} on the Xenomai side. The plan is
> to have a unified x86* tree for Xenomai 2.4 which has to work with all
> supported kernel releases, including 2.6.24. Yes, I know we are in -rc
> phase, but such merge should mostly reshuffle the directory layout, and
> not the implementation per se, otherwise, it will have to wait for 2.5.
> 
> At the end of the day (i.e. sometime during the v2.4 maintenance cycle),
> we should have the I-pipe/x86_64 merged with the I-pipe/i386 support,
> leading to the I-pipe/x86-2.0 series, on top of 2.6.24, and all of that
> usable with a unified ia32/64

i386/x86_64 I mean...

 Xenomai support, which is basically what
> we already have now on the powerpc side of the universe.
> 
> http://download.gna.org/adeos/patches/v2.6/i386/adeos-ipipe-2.6.24-rc1-i386-1.10-11.patch
> 
> PS: slightly tested here. Looks ok, sun is still shining, birds are
> still singing, hardware is not burning - yet.
> 


-- 
Philippe.