From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <47226F54.4090709@domain.hid> Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:51:00 +0200 From: Philippe Gerum MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <47226B5E.2050303@domain.hid> In-Reply-To: <47226B5E.2050303@domain.hid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: Philippe Gerum Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] I-pipe/i386 for 2.6.24-rc1 - x86/x86_64 merge to come Reply-To: rpm@xenomai.org List-Id: "Xenomai life and development \(bug reports, patches, discussions\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: rpm@xenomai.org Cc: xenomai-core 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.