From: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
To: dietmar.schindler@manroland-web.com
Cc: xenomai@xenomai.org
Subject: Re: [Xenomai] [PATCH, Xenomai 2.5.6]
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:53:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50162F5D.2050706@xenomai.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <208C6975C932E94F86239FEA59CCA632068319E7@AUSMXMBX02.mrws.biz>
On 07/30/2012 08:42 AM, dietmar.schindler@manroland-web.com wrote:
>> -----Original Message----- From: Gilles Chanteperdrix
>> [mailto:gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org] Sent: Friday, July 27,
>> 2012 5:54 PM
>>
>> On 07/27/2012 02:45 PM, dietmar.schindler@manroland-web.com wrote:
>>
>>> These are patches for two files in ksrc/nucleus of Xenomai 2.5.6
>>> to cure an incompatibility with Linux 2.4; if they are bad in
>>> form, please let me know.
>>
>>
>> This is kind of you to provide the patch, but I do not think we
>> are going to issue any new release in the 2.5 branch.
>>
>> Even though 2.6 is technically a new branch, with a different ABI,
>> very few things (actually, none that come to my mind) have changed
>> in the API, so, the update should be painless.
>
> At
> http://www.xenomai.org/index.php/Xenomai:News#2010-10-06_Xenomai_2.5.5.1
> I read: "Note: Xenomai 2.5.5 is the last release to contain a patch
> for Linux 2.4 on x86 ..."; thence I blindly assumed that Xenomai 2.6
> would not work with Linux 2.4 - did I go astray?
Yes, xenomai 2.6 still works with Linux 2.4 (or is supposed to, we just
compile-test) even though it does not include the patch.
> Besides that, with
> third-party software as e. g. ProConOS, it might not be easily
> possible to update the Xenomai branch.
Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do about that. We let 6 months
between the 2.6.0 and 2.6.1 release, it can not be said that we release
to often.
--
Gilles.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-30 6:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-27 12:45 [Xenomai] [PATCH, Xenomai 2.5.6] dietmar.schindler
2012-07-27 12:51 ` Philippe Gerum
2012-08-01 6:58 ` dietmar.schindler
2012-08-01 9:04 ` Philippe Gerum
2012-08-01 9:21 ` Gilles Chanteperdrix
2012-08-01 9:52 ` Philippe Gerum
2012-08-01 9:52 ` Philippe Gerum
2012-08-01 11:59 ` Philippe Gerum
2012-08-01 13:10 ` Gilles Chanteperdrix
2012-08-01 13:15 ` Philippe Gerum
2012-07-27 15:53 ` Gilles Chanteperdrix
2012-07-27 16:11 ` Philippe Gerum
2012-07-30 6:42 ` dietmar.schindler
2012-07-30 6:53 ` Gilles Chanteperdrix [this message]
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