Re: [Xenomai] problems while patching Debian kernel

[Tom Z <tomz30@yahoo.com>]

Hi Roland,

Thanks for you reply that helps me a lot.
I don't quite understand "...Debian stable currently contains Xenomai 
2.5.4 (with patches)...":
It seems the Xenomai source code & binaries are not automatically 
included after I installed Debian 6.0.7. Before I switched to Debian, to 
install Xenomai on my another Ubuntu laptop, what I do is:
1. Get a Linux kernel tarball from kernel.org and a Xenomai tarball from 
Xenomai.org
2. Patch the kernel and make menuconfig
3. compile & build the patched Linux kernel, and generate a kernel image
4. make & make install Xenomai binaries
So, if "Debian stable currently contains Xenomai 2.5.4", which of the 
above steps can be skipped?

With many thanks
Tom

On 3/12/2013 1:19 PM, Roland Stigge wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thanks for using Xenomai and Debian!
>
> On 03/12/2013 05:47 PM, Tom Z wrote:
>> Does that mean "2.6.32 48squeeze1" is not supported by this patch?
> Strictly speaking, yes.
>
>> what caused the above problems?
> When Debian was released (or when Xenomai in Debian was updated the last
> time), the patch was made to apply to Debian's kernel back then.
> Meanwhile, the kernel (sources) changed due to security fixes and other
> important changes.
>
> So the patch doesn't apply anymore. Until I update the patch in the
> Xenomai package in Debian.
>
> I'll need to adjust the patch in the Debian stable package and integrate
> into the updates for Debian squeeze.
>
>> How can I solve them?
> You can either wait until my updated patch is available from the Debian
> mirror network which will be in a few days.
>
> Remember that Debian stable currently contains Xenomai 2.5.4 (with
> patches), so you might be interested in current "upstream" Xenomai
> 2.6.2.1 from xenomai.org. This one should work fine with Debian since
> newer kernels up to 3.8 are commonly used with Debian. For this option,
> you would take Xenomai directly from xenomai.org (follow the common
> installation instructions there).
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Roland