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

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

On 2013-06-11 15:22, Philippe Gerum wrote:
> On 06/11/2013 01:37 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> 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
> 
> ipipe-3.8.0 is actually checkout -b from master prior to working on a 
> more recent release in ipipe-next. This is really for 3.8.0 material only.

So where should the 3.8.13 merge go to?

Jan

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