Re: [Xenomai] Raspberry and Beaglebone patches

[Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>]

On 04/15/2013 12:52 PM, Paul wrote:

> 
> Hi Gilles
> 
> On Monday 15 April 2013, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
>> we have a problem with the patches for Raspberry and BeagleBone: they
>> are based on the 3.2.21 patch, which we know is broken. So, we can
>> not really ship the next version of Xenomai with these patches.
> 
> The original Raspberry patch from Ian-cim consisted of adding ipipe 
> timer support to the BSP sources in 3.2.21. My efforts concentrated on 
> backporting some of the Raspberry specific support from their 3.6.y 
> tree to Xenomai 3.5.7 - Any breakages in 3.2.xx shouldn't be an issue.
> 
>> There are two ways we could keep patches for these machines:
>> - you could send patches for 3.4 or 3.5, or even 3.8
> 
> The Raspberry patch is already at 3.5.7, not sure what state the 
> raspberry-3.8.y tree is in at the moment. Time allowing, I'll have a 
> look at a 3.8 patch over the next few days.
> 
>> - we could backport the fixes to 3.2, but as already discussed on
>> this list, this would cost some time to re-validate the 3.2 patch on
>> all architectures. However, if you do the backport, validate it on
>> your side, I could validate the result on my test boards, and we
>> would release a new version of the patch for 3.2 only for the ARM
>> architecture.
> 
> I feel my time would be better spent on updating to 3.8, so I'll give 
> the backport a miss for now ;-)


Sorry for the noise, I thought the Raspberry Pi patch was for 3.2. Yes,
the patch for 3.8 would be intersting to get for the 2.6.3 release.


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                                                                Gilles.