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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] Remove outdated x86 adeos patches
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To: Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@domain.hid>, xenomai-core <xenomai@xenomai.org>

Philippe Gerum wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 09:58 +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
>>> Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>> Hi Philippe,
>>>>
>>>> as adeos-ipipe-2.4.35.5-i386-1.3-05.patch and
>>>> adeos-ipipe-2.6.29.5-x86-2.4-02.patch are no longer up to date /wrt to
>>>> latest i-pipe fixes, I would suggest to remove them for 2.5-final.
>>>> Avoids that people trap into known issues.
>>> What latest fixes? Are they expected to oops or something?
>> 2.6.29 on x86-64: definitely (irq stack corruption). 32 bits and 2.4.35
>> are lacking the halt fix (I bet other arch beyond x86 that use a
>> hlt-like idle do so as well). It's not that they aren't fixable, it's
>> just the question if we should bother anymore.
>>
> 
> Ack.
> 
> I don't even know whether anybody ever tried to run Xenomai over 2.4/x86
> anyway, and I don't think this would ever make sense to do so today, so
> 2.4.35 will be removed.
> 
> 2.6.29.4 will go away as well, since 2.6.30.8 and 2.6.31.1 have been
> fixed, and hopefully, 2.6.33/86 will be supported in a foreseeable
> future.
> 
> In any case, the README in the patches/ directory clearly states 
> that adventurous people may try other options available from
> http://download.gna.org/adeos/patches/

Ok. However, if we want to check that Xenomai 2.5 still compiles with
linux 2.4 base patches, can we keep at least one 2.4 patch in the
repository?

-- 
					    Gilles.