On 01/16/2013 09:13 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2013-01-16 07:55, John Morris wrote:
>> On 01/14/2013 08:07 AM, Philippe Gerum wrote:
>>> On 01/14/2013 01:05 PM, Michael Haberler wrote:
>>>> Is there any chance somebody runs Xenomai AND RT_PREEMPT patches
>>>> applied? I heard a rumor but havent actually seen that
>>>
>>> Yes, this works. The current target is ppc 85xx, but I don't see any
>>> showstopper for running such combo on other archs, provided the
>>> I-pipe patch is adapted to a -rt kernel. This requires Xenomai
>>> 2.6.1+, stock.
>>
>> Comparing the xenomai-2.6.2 x86/patches directory and
>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt, it appears there's a
>> common kernel version in 3.2.21.
>>
>> I'm preparing RPM packages for 3.5 because I assume that's where most
>> development and bug fixing is going on, and because I hope the work will
>> be useful beyond the LinuxCNC community. Unfortunately, RT_PREEMPT
>> seems to skip linux 3.5 entirely, jumping from 3.4 to 3.6.
>
> I-pipe also jumps, and now happened to land on 3.5 with its latest fixes
> and features. When we jump the next time, we should probably pick 3.8 as
> target for that reason. I may look into this soon. But I'm also
> considering to backport recent work to 3.4 (for x86 targets at least).
I may jump to 3.6, at least for the ARM architecture. As for the
backports to 3.4, I still intend to re-release 2.6.2, so, it would be
nice to backport the bugfixes in the core-3.5 branch to the core-3.4 branch.
--
Gilles.
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