On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 12:32 PM, Paul <[email protected]> wrote:
 
On Wednesday 19 February 2014, Huub Van Niekerk wrote:

> The patch you created for the armhf architecture, will it work with
> older Linux kernels such as 2.6.x and 3.2.x as well ?

>Just to clarify, the patch that I submitted is for the Broadcom BCM2835 
>SoC (an ARMv6K core) - armhf covers a variety of ARM flavours.

>If you can find a 2.6.xx kernel that has support for the BCM2835 AND 
>includes the DWC-OTG drivers, there is no reason why the Raspberry Pi 
>patch couldn't be adapted.

>The 3.2.x kernel reportedly had a few serious bugs - I don't know if 
>these bugs impacted on the BCM2835 or the operation of Xenomai. If you 
>are looking at using a 3.x.x series kernel, it would be advisable to 
>get the latest stable release that has a corresponding Xenomai patch.

I just tried to build xenomai-2.6.2 on armhf (after applying your patch) using 
debuild -us -uc. This fails with an error I had before: fatal error at line 
1350: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -B -us -uc failed. Does this mean that your 
patch is not suitable for v. 2.6.2 ?
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