From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <516C5922.8000708@xenomai.org> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:46:42 +0200 From: Gilles Chanteperdrix MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <516BA4E9.3070201@xenomai.org> <201304151152.09727.paul_c@tuxcnc.org> In-Reply-To: <201304151152.09727.paul_c@tuxcnc.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Xenomai] Raspberry and Beaglebone patches List-Id: Discussions about the Xenomai project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paul Cc: Stephan Kappertz , Xenomai 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. -- Gilles.