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From: Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>
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Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 14:51:52 +0200
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai] Xenomai 3: comapt issues with RTDM
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
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On 07/21/2015 02:27 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Hi Philippe,
> 
> just a heads up, I'll try to address this later:
> 
> I received a report that include/rtdm/uapi/rtdm.h contains some data
> structures that are used between the kernel and the userspace library
> (so not directly by applications) and are not compatible with
> 32-on-64-bit (compat) scenarios. We should probably promote anything
> that is longer on 64-bit to that size, unconditionally. As this affects
> the ABI, it should be fixed before 3.0 release, ideally.
> 

That would require to fix up the client drivers (setsockopt, getsockopt
typically). Ok, I'll have a look when I'm done with testing the blackfin
port.

-- 
Philippe.