Re: [Xenomai] git://git.xenomai.org/ipipe.git reshuffle, 3.8.0 kernel support

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 2013-05-27 18:56, Philippe Gerum wrote:
> On 05/27/2013 09:45 AM, Philippe Gerum wrote:
>>
>> The I-pipe tree at git://git.xenomai.org/ipipe.git will be reorganized
>> today at 3pm GMT. At this chance, support for the 3.8.0 kernel will be
>> introduced.
>>
>> The complete commit history will be preserved, along with existing tags.
>> Branches may be renamed though, to better reflect the new development
>> workflow introduced with the pipeline "core" series.
>>
>> If you have scripts pulling from this repository in any automated way,
>> you may want to stop them for the day.
>>
>> A description of the few changes involved will be sent to this mailing
>> list later today, shortly before the new repository is published.
>>
> 
> The reshuffled repository is now on line.
> 
> The changes are as follows:
> 
> - all legacy pipeline branches (i.e. pre-"core" series) have moved under
> the legacy/ hierarchy, e.g.
> ipipe-2.6.20-powerpc => legacy/ipipe-2.6.20-powerpc
> All branches under legacy/ are frozen, and won't be updated anymore.
> 
> - the master branch now reflects the state of the mainline I-pipe
> development. Pull from this branch for the latest validated commits, for
> the latest supported kernel.
> 
> - new ipipe-<kernel.version> branches are started off master
> periodically, for maintaining the pipeline over stable kernel releases.
> These branches include the pipeline code for a given kernel release, for
> a set of architectures we support in this release. There is neither
> arch-specific nor -noarch branches anymore.

Will pulling in stable updates for a kernel major release create new
branches or is "ipipe-3.8.0" a misnomer that should actually be called
"ipipe-3.8"? I'd like to update 3.8 to the final stable release and was
wondering about the best process for this. We will need some core code
patch conflict resolutions that I already done here some time ago.

Jan

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