I think using the CIP kernel would be a great idea. I can see this being popular with product developers.
-Greg On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 12:52 PM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@siemens.com> wrote: > Hi Philippe, > > as the number of question increase here, but I bet elsewhere as well, > and I'm planning to work on some parts soonish, I'd like to coordinate: > > Where are we standing with 4.14 right now? There is nothing for x86 yet, > right? > > What are the update plans for 4.9? We currently have one x86 user on > that kernel, but I suppose we could also move on to 4.14 once it's > ready. For me the question is right now where to invest x86-wise, 4.9 > update or 4.14 completion + update? > > For 4.4, which we will need for product use for sure, I'm considering to > lift the support from 4.4 LTS to the CIP [1][2] kernel. That one will be > longer maintained and basically differs from LTS only in mainline > backports of certain hardware support and critical features. Plus some > reverts of broken LTS commits that will later on be reverted there as > well. The fuss that meltdown brings in would be a good point to do the > jump IMHO (there is no CIP kernel with meltdown fixes yet, due to issues > in LTS, but that will change soon). > > Regarding spectre, I'm not expected that much impact on ipipe, but that > situation is still too much in flux, even in upstream. > > What do you think? > > @all: What are requirements of other users here? > > Jan > > [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bwh/linux-cip.git > [2] > https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/cipkernelmaintenance > > -- > Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RDA IOT SES-DE > Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux > > _______________________________________________ > Xenomai mailing list > Xenomai@xenomai.org > https://xenomai.org/mailman/listinfo/xenomai _______________________________________________ Xenomai mailing list Xenomai@xenomai.org https://xenomai.org/mailman/listinfo/xenomai
