On 11/21/2017 08:54 PM, Dmitriy Cherkasov wrote: > On 11/21/2017 09:11 AM, Philippe Gerum wrote: > >> So, let's talk about the elephant in the room: the current situation of >> the Xenomai project is not viable in the long run. I can only encourage >> people who feel concerned about it to discuss openly the practical steps >> to best address this challenge. > > Hi Philippe, > > I would be happy to help any way that I can, especially with any of the > new pipeline work. > We may want to discuss this in a separate thread if interested, however some context may fit here:
linux-steely (master branch) as visible on the git server contains the current state of this work, tracking the mainline tip as closely as possible (up to commit #83bfd83650cc, anything on top is a new co-kernel derived from Cobalt I'm toying with for experimenting with the pipeline and new ideas for a better integration in Linux). The development took place on imx6qp and imx7d so far; I want to port this to aarch64 and started to do so. imx can run the basic tests, the aarch64 port does not boot yet. The whole thing is still very much in a state of flux, as better ways to make dual kernel support a basic Linux feature - instead of a set of unrelated sideways - appear. A reasonable plan would be to interface Xenomai's Cobalt core with the new pipeline at some point, while keeping the I-pipe option available, gradually phasing out the current I-pipe generation as the new one matures. > Having said that, I think this is a good discussion to have. If there > are commercial or institutional users of any of the somewhat neglected > subsystems, this would be a good time to remind them to invest some > resources into maintaining these things in the upstream project. > Feedback and proposals for even simple changes which may help users in the future are valuable contributions too, which come at virtually no cost. Once a problem is stated, resources to fix it may be looked for. > I think in general, hobbyist contributors will mostly work on what they > find interesting to themselves, and if there is no hobbyist or > commercial support for certain features then perhaps it does make sense > to drop them. > Ack. At any rate, shipping bit rot software people would unfortunately rely upon never helped anyone. -- Philippe. _______________________________________________ Xenomai mailing list Xenomai@xenomai.org https://xenomai.org/mailman/listinfo/xenomai
