From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <50162F5D.2050706@xenomai.org> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:53:17 +0200 From: Gilles Chanteperdrix MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <208C6975C932E94F86239FEA59CCA632068318D3@AUSMXMBX02.mrws.biz> <5012B995.8080909@xenomai.org> <208C6975C932E94F86239FEA59CCA632068319E7@AUSMXMBX02.mrws.biz> In-Reply-To: <208C6975C932E94F86239FEA59CCA632068319E7@AUSMXMBX02.mrws.biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Xenomai] [PATCH, Xenomai 2.5.6] List-Id: Discussions about the Xenomai project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: dietmar.schindler@manroland-web.com Cc: xenomai@xenomai.org 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.