From: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
To: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
Cc: Thierry Bultel <thierry.bultel@wanadoo.fr>, xenomai@xenomai.org
Subject: Re: [Xenomai] Availability of ARM adeos patch for 3.5 kernel, and RTDM SPI for iMX6 ?
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:48:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50379442.1050009@xenomai.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50378527.1080708@grandegger.com>
On 08/24/2012 03:44 PM, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
> On 08/24/2012 02:49 PM, Thierry Bultel wrote:
>> Le 24/08/2012 12:59, Gilles Chanteperdrix a écrit :
>>> On 08/24/2012 12:06 PM, Thierry Bultel wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I noticed on git that the latest available patch for ARM is
>>>> ipipe-core-3.2.21-arm-1.patch,
>>>> that I assume, replaces the mxc pre+std+post mecanism, please tell me if
>>>> I am wrong.
>>>
>>> The pre+std+post mechanism is used to apply a patch for mainline kernel
>>> to the Freescale linux tree. If you want to use that tree, you always
>>> need that mechanism. ipipe-core-3.2.21-arm-1.patch is a patch for the
>>> mainline kernel.
>> Thanks for the clarification.
>> When you refer to Freescale linux tree, are you talking about
>>
>> https://github.com/Freescale/linux-imx* *?
>>
>> If yes, the latest version there is 3.5-rc7.
>
> No, but "http://git.freescale.com/git/cgit.cgi/imx/linux-2.6-imx.git/"
>
>> The CPU module vendor is likely to base its BSP on a Freescale kernel, probably that one, so I am
>> concerned about finding a matching patch to apply on.
>> What would you advise ? Taking in account what you mention below, is the backport from Freescale
>> 3.5-rc7 to mainline 3.4 the most suitable solution, or a port of the adeos patch in the opposite way ?
>
> There is resonable support for the i.MX6Q Sabrelite board in the
> mainline kernel. In principle, you would need to backport it to 3.4.x or
> push the iPipe patches forward to 3.6-rcX.
Finally, we will have a patch for 3.5. But in any case I would not
recommend working with an -rc kernel.
--
Gilles.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-24 10:06 [Xenomai] Availability of ARM adeos patch for 3.5 kernel, and RTDM SPI for iMX6 ? Thierry Bultel
2012-08-24 10:59 ` Gilles Chanteperdrix
2012-08-24 12:49 ` Thierry Bultel
2012-08-24 13:44 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2012-08-24 14:48 ` Gilles Chanteperdrix [this message]
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