Re: [Xenomai-help] Xenomai patches

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@domain.hid>]

Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote:
> A Dijous 29 Octubre 2009, Gilles Chanteperdrix va escriure:
>> Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote:
>>> A Dijous 29 Octubre 2009, Gilles Chanteperdrix va escriure:
>>>> Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
>>>>> Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote:
>>>>>> OTOH, the debian package has a bug. I cannot compile xenomai, using
>>>>>> the debian way on kernels 2.6.28, 2.6.29 and 2.6.30 because the
>>>>>> package add something that fails with make menuconfig. I should write
>>>>>> a bug. Just for information, it's not a xenomai upstream related
>>>>>> question. ;-)
>>>>> Please check xenomai-2.4.9.1. It may happen that the bug has been
>>>>> already solved.
>>>> 2.4.10
>>> nops, sorry again my fingers were so fast ...
>>>
>>> we are talking about the same? I got:
>>>
>>> cripts/kconfig/conf -o arch/x86/Kconfig
>>> arch/x86/Kconfig:74: unexpected option "select"
>>> arch/x86/Kconfig:75: unexpected option "select"
>>> make[3]: *** [oldconfig] Error 1
>>> make[2]: *** [oldconfig] Error 2
>> I am not talking about any specific bug. It was just a general advice.
>> In any case, we are not responsible for the Xenomai packages made by the
>> Debian team, but if you find bugs in the debian directory which is part
>> of the Xenomai package, we are interested in fixing them, of course.
> 
> well, I have found two things:
> 
> 1) the debian directory is very similar in both (upstream and debian 
> official). The method to create the package is described in the xenomai wiki 
> and have been working so well till now (at least in my case). The script or 
> the patch applied in the versions of the kernel 2.6.28>= introduces something 
> that make fail the make menuconfig step. If you apply the patch with the 
> script (scripts/prepare-kernel.sh) the make menuconfig works
> 
> 2) after the step of preparing the kernel, (with xenomai 2.4.10) when I 
> compile the kernel (2.6.30., it fails in:
> 
>  CC      arch/x86/xenomai/hal-common.o
> arch/x86/xenomai/hal_32.c: In function ‘rthal_latency_above_max’:
> arch/x86/xenomai/hal_32.c:139: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘die_nmi’ from 
> incompatible pointer type
> arch/x86/xenomai/hal_32.c:139: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘die_nmi’ from 
> incompatible pointer type
> arch/x86/xenomai/hal_32.c:139: error: too few arguments to function ‘die_nmi’
> make[2]: *** [arch/x86/xenomai/hal_32.o] Error 1
> make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>   LD      arch/x86/oprofile/built-in.o
>   CC      net/socket.o

Just disable CONFIG_XENO_HW_NMI_DEBUG_LATENCY (it's widely broken in 2.4
for recent kernels).

Jan

-- 
Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT SE 2
Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux