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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] [Xenomai-help] Xenomai 2.6.0-rc1
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To: Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>
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On 09/06/2011 08:19 PM, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> On 09/06/2011 05:10 PM, Philippe Gerum wrote:
>> On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 16:53 +0200, Philippe Gerum wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 16:53 +0200, Philippe Gerum wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 16:19 +0200, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
>>>>> On 09/06/2011 03:27 PM, Philippe Gerum wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 13:31 +0200, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
>>>>>>> On 09/04/2011 10:52 PM, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The first release candidate for the 2.6.0 version may be downloaded here:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://download.gna.org/xenomai/testing/xenomai-2.6.0-rc1.tar.bz2
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> currently 2.6.0-rc1 fails to build on 2.4 kernel, with errors related to
>>>>>>> vfile support. Do we really want to still support 2.4 kernels?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That would not be a massive loss, but removing linux 2.4 support is more
>>>>>> than a few hunks here and there, so this may not be the right thing to
>>>>>> do ATM. Besides, it would be better not to leave the few linux 2.4 users
>>>>>> out there without upgrade path to xenomai 2.6, since this will be the
>>>>>> last maintained version from the Xenomai 2.x architecture.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That stuff does not compile likely because the Config.in bits are not up
>>>>>> to date, blame it on me. I'll make this build over linux 2.4 and commit
>>>>>> the result today.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> No problem, I was not looking for someone to blame... Since you are at
>>>>> it, I have problems compiling the nios2 kernel too, but I am not sure I
>>>>> got the proper configuration file.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> HEAD builds fine based on the attached .config. 
>>>>
>>
>> Btw we now only support the MMU version (2.6.35.2) of this kernel over
>> Xenomai 2.6. Reference tree is available there:
>>
>> url = git://sopc.et.ntust.edu.tw/git/linux-2.6.git
>> branch = nios2mmu
>>
>> nommu support is discontinued for nios2 - people who depend on it should
>> stick with Xenomai 2.5.x.
>>
> 
> Ok, still not building, maybe the commit number mentioned in the README
> is not up-to-date?
> 

More build failures for kernel 3.0 and ppc...

http://sisyphus.hd.free.fr/~gilles/bx/index.html#powerpc

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                                                                Gilles.