From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 13:51:05 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] xenomai: Add choice for Cobalt/Mercury core In-Reply-To: <99d84995-3497-3072-f56a-bea2960327c6@mind.be> References: <20170406234139.31532-1-sikor6@gmail.com> <20170406234139.31532-2-sikor6@gmail.com> <20170408153452.54837e4c@free-electrons.com> <2fa9e5f3-79a9-090e-76ed-457be2e6e49a@mind.be> <99d84995-3497-3072-f56a-bea2960327c6@mind.be> Message-ID: <20170410135105.6b246fa4@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 11:08:21 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote: > In fact, I would forego the 'custom Xenomai version' support entirely. I don't > see why you would ever want an older version, and if you need a newer version > than the one in Buildroot you can just bump the package. Does anyone see a > reason to support multiple versions? [Adding ThomasDS in Cc to answer that.] I think the main reason is that Xenomai includes kernel patches, but only for specific kernel versions. So if you're using a specific kernel version, you might need to use a specific Xenomai version, and not just "the latest". Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com