Hi Greg, Thank you very much for the clarification!
I see my misunderstanding when reading the postings on the list. And 2.6.28 would be excellent for us! Regards, - Rainer -----Original Message----- From: uclinux-dev-boun...@uclinux.org [mailto:uclinux-dev-boun...@uclinux.org] On Behalf Of Greg Ungerer Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 06:21 PM To: uClinux development list Subject: Re: [uClinux-dev] newest possible kernel version for trunkof uClinux-dist? Hi Rainer, Rainer Keller wrote: > My company is porting uClinux to our processor architecture that is used > in several routers and some digital picture frames on the market. We > started with the 20080808 distribution (2.6.25-uc0 kernel) and have a > kernel up and are adding drivers and user mode code currently. > > Our architecture has nommu but SMP support, gpios and other things that > we see are in great flux in the mainline kernel. > > The latest patch in http://www.uclinux.org/pub/uClinux/dist/patches/ is > uClinux-dist-20080808-20090112.patch.gz, same as on > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=240583&package_id= > 292947 both contain a patched 2.6.26 kernel now, also under > http://www.uclinux.org/pub/uClinux/uClinux-2.6.x/ I find > linux-2.6.26-uc0.patch.gz as the latest patch. > > In one of the recent postings here I saw it mentioned that Linus has a > -uc0 branch in addition to mainline. No, thats not the case. Linus has no separate branches for uClinux. I have patches that I version "-uc0", "-uc1", etc. But I generate those, not Linus. They are for testing out upcoming changes that I plan to send to Linus. > And from another email I concluded > that __uClinux__ is a conditional that surround nommu-isms in the kernel > source but "grep -r __uClinux__ *" gives me nothing in the kernel from > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git. No, not exactly either. Almost all of the current code in the kernel for non-mmu is conditional on CONFIG_MMU. I would encourage you to base anything non-MMU specific (not architecture specific) on this. The define __uClinux__ is a gcc definition used by compilers generated for uclinux. > One of my colleagues says that uClinux is fully integrated in the > mainline kernel now but seeing the patches for 2.6.26 and not finding > anything with my grep confused me a bit and "just trying" with 2.6.28 or > newer is several days of work. non-MMU support is fully integrated into the kernel (has been in all 2.6 series kernels). > Could someone please tell me which kernel is the newest that I can use > to put our architecture code in and run the uClinux userland code and > libs underneath? I would use 2.6.28, if you are serious about pushing for main line inclusion. I will release a 2.6.28-uc0 in a couple of weeks time. But there is no reason to wait for that. > I only checked the FAQs on uClinux and uCdot and I am reading > uClinux-dev since about a month. If there is a better source of > information I would be happy with any kind of: read this mailing archive > / website kind of answer. They are about the best really... Regards Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Greg Ungerer -- Principal Engineer EMAIL: g...@snapgear.com SnapGear, a McAfee Company PHONE: +61 7 3435 2888 825 Stanley St, FAX: +61 7 3891 3630 Woolloongabba, QLD, 4102, Australia WEB: http://www.SnapGear.com _______________________________________________ uClinux-dev mailing list uClinux-dev@uclinux.org http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/listinfo/uclinux-dev This message was resent by uclinux-dev@uclinux.org To unsubscribe see: http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/options/uclinux-dev _______________________________________________ uClinux-dev mailing list uClinux-dev@uclinux.org http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/listinfo/uclinux-dev This message was resent by uclinux-dev@uclinux.org To unsubscribe see: http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/options/uclinux-dev
