From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4B86C214.3020407@domain.hid> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:31:48 +0100 From: Stefan Kisdaroczi MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4B6E8167.6010907@domain.hid> <4B76B7F2.2050303@domain.hid> <4B76C045.2070602@domain.hid> <1266140329.27019.17.camel@domain.hid> <4B867EB5.9090504@domain.hid> <4B867FF9.2020709@domain.hid> <4B868228.10206@domain.hid> <4B868CC1.6030103@domain.hid> In-Reply-To: <4B868CC1.6030103@domain.hid> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig55287CC6090C137CB4E53163" Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] Xenomai in Debian List-Id: Xenomai life and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Jeff Weber Cc: xenomai@xenomai.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig55287CC6090C137CB4E53163 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Jeff, Am 25.02.2010 15:44, schrieb Jeff Weber: > Hello Stefan: >=20 > I've been watching with interest the recent active work integrating > Debian and Xenomai. I am currently porting an embedded application to > Xenomai, and am surveying candidate Linux distributions. >=20 > I did a test build, install of Xenomai on a Debian Lenny distributionI > per the HOWTO: > http://xenomai.org/index.php/Xenomai_quick_build_quide >=20 > and updated my grub menu.lst with the new kernel, and all worked well. > I did spend a significant amount of time tuning my kernel config file t= o > my target board. >=20 > Can you help me understand the advantages of using the Debian packages,= > over the process I followed above? I am still unclear on the advantage= s > of using the Debian Xenomia packages. Advantages: - Installing software is easy, maintaining a system is harder. Using debi= an packages helps you upgrading/removing xenomai on a system. - If you need xenomai on more than one machine, you build once and instal= l the same deb's on all machines. - You are testing different distributions now. If you install distributio= n xyz on your system and want later to switch back to lenny, you just have to= keep the deb's and you are fine. Nothing to compile. - You don't need any xenomai knowhow to install a deb. If, for example, y= our co-worker needs to be able to setup xenomai too and he has the deb's a simple "dpkg -i *.deb" on a lenny system will do it and it will work, and you can enjoy your holidays ;-) > Which kernels can I use? >=20 > Do I still need to tune a kernel config file? You still need to tune the config and build a kernel, there is no binary kernel-image with xenomai support. However, if you use make-kpkg to build= the kernel it will build a *.deb. If you install this deb you dont have to fiddle with grub menu.lst, the kernel is automatically added. Please always CC the mailing list. Thank you. Regards Stefan > If not, how is the kernel pre-configured? >=20 > thanks, > Jeff --------------enig55287CC6090C137CB4E53163 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFLhsIZIPTw9rIdn6oRAhFVAJ9BgZ6QEkqTatuQ2ypHFW09bP3begCeKUzR WfG2EdYxlHSYCW0ZZvKusS8= =vl/W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig55287CC6090C137CB4E53163--