On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Chris Johns <chr...@rtems.org> wrote: > On 11/03/2015 1:33 am, Amar Takhar wrote: >> >> Can we come up with a plan for branching 4.11? >> >> We need to push off any commits made that are unrelated to tickets open in >> milestone 4.11 to the next release. This way any changes we make have a >> narrow >> scope. >> >> This close to the release we should really be in a slush period then a >> hard >> close once all issues are resolved and we are working on the release >> process. >> >> Any commits after branching should only be related to getting 4.11 out. >> > > I think we are in a slushy period and so we should be narrowing down > changes. > > A couple of major issues: > > 1. We need a suitable newlib snapshot to reference. > 2. We need to move to gdb-7.9 so we can at least build Windows > tools on Windows. GDB 7.9 does not build for SPARC with our > local patches. > I would like to consider landing the drvmgr and pci patch-set as a sparc-specific feature (e.g. only included in builds for sparc.) The code is effectively being used by sparc users already via RCC. The bad thing is it is a lot of "untested code" (from an RTEMS Project perspective), but we have no means to test it effectively anyways since it is all hardware-dependent.
> In my view we cannot move until we have these items sorted. > > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > devel@rtems.org > http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@rtems.org http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel