From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <484E9EE7.4030904@domain.hid> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:33:59 +0200 From: Philippe Gerum MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <200806101714.14019.leo@domain.hid> In-Reply-To: <200806101714.14019.leo@domain.hid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: Philippe Gerum Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] kernel patches Reply-To: rpm@xenomai.org List-Id: Help regarding installation and common use of Xenomai List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda Cc: xenomai@xenomai.org Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote: > Hi, > > trying to compile a new kernel I have realised that with every new version of > xenomai, you update to the new kernel version deleting the patch for the old > version of the kernel. > > There's some special reason? I don't understand it. > The Adeos project has officially released 722 patches over 7 different architectures since June 6 2002; now, just imagine how the various patches/ directories would look like if we did not remove the older versions. On i386, we have patches for almost all kernels ranging from 2.4.2x to 2.6.25. The patches/ directory contains material which has been used to validate the Xenomai release in question; this does not mean that no other patches may be used. We actually have a decent record of maintaining backward compatibility in that area. There is a recent FAQ entry giving some hints: http://www.xenomai.org/index.php/FAQs -- Philippe.