Re: [Xenomai] kernel 3.12

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

Folks,

in case you didn't notice: we have a 4.0-based ipipe for zynq in git
(http://git.xenomai.org/ipipe.git/log/?h=vendors/xilinx/zynq/ipipe-4.0).
You may move things to 4.1-LTS from there if you need long-term support.

Jan

On 2016-04-25 22:09, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 11:01:40PM +0300, Ran Shalit wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 10:50 PM, Gilles Chanteperdrix
>> <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 07:38:45PM +0300, Ran Shalit wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 5:36 PM, Lennart Sorensen
>>>> <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 10:21:50AM +0300, Ran Shalit wrote:
>>>>>> We intend to use ipipe with zynq (we already have 3.12.0 kernel used with zynq).
>>>>>> Do you think the patch should be relevant for zynq ?
>>>>>> I see that xilinx have their own patch , but it is for older kernel 2.6.3
>>>>>> http://www.wiki.xilinx.com/Xenomai+for+Zynq#Xenomai for Zynq-7000 AP
>>>>>> SoC Linux--Patch
> 
> Actually that is xenomai 2.6.3 with 3.8 kernel patches.  2.6.4 is the
> latest xenomai 2, while current xenomai is now 3.x (which we have not
> yet moved to but really should at some point).
> 
> The fact it needs pre and post patches for zynq makes me suspect it
> might involve a bit more work, but maybe I am wrong.  I have never had
> to deal with pre and post patches.
> 
>>>>> You can give it a try.  The zynq does have a Cortex-A9 as far as I recall,
>>>>> so it ought to work.  Doesn't mean there aren't other bits that need
>>>>> fixing in the zynq specific code.  But maybe there isn't.
>>>>>
>>>>> Just remember it was never an officially supported kernel version.
>>>>> It worked for us, it was given a once over by a proper xenomai developer
>>>>> who did not seem to think it was wrong, but if it doesn't work I wouldn't
>>>>> expect the xenomai developers to be excited to help fix it.
>>>>>
>>>>>> I also see that in git there is ipipe for 3.12.0
>>>>>> http://git.xenomai.org/ipipe-gch.git/log/?h=raw/for-ipipe-3.12.0
>>>>>> But again I am unsure if it is relevant for zynq too.
>>>>>
>>>>> Well that was a work in progress I believe and never officially released
>>>>> as far as I recall.  I started from that one, but the one I posted is
>>>>> actually based on the 3.14 patch and backported as far as I recall.
>>>>> It has been a while since we moved to 3.14.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Len Sorensen
>>>>
>>>> Hi Len,
>>>>
>>>> We've first tried to apply the patch for 3.12.0 but there were too many errors,
>>>> so we eventually used
>>>> http://git.xenomai.org/ipipe-gch.git/log/?h=raw/for-ipipe-3.12.0
>>>> latest commit.
>>>> I hope the ipipe should work without any issues wuth this tree.
>>>> Is there a way to check if ipipe is OK with our version based on this commit ?
>>>
>>> Bad idea, this branch corresponds to some intermediate state. I
>>> removed it.
>>>
>>> --
>>>                                             Gilles.
>>
>> Hi Gilles,
>>
>> Is there any better way to apply ipipe on 3.12.0 ?
> 
> Well as I said, I backported the 3.14 patch to 3.12 when we used 3.12,
> which wasn't too hard.  That's what my patch for 3.12 was.
> 
> Unfortunately 3.12 was never a supported kernel for xenomai.
> 

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