Re: [Xenomai] [RFC] dropping ppc64 support

2018-01-25 Thread Wadepohl, Wolfram
Hi all, dropping the ppc64 support are bad news for me. Watchting the xenomai project for several years, I'm now in the situation for the need of a stable hard rt solution in combination with gnu/linux for a project. So xenomai is no longer on the list, due to the missing future support for

[Xenomai] meeting agenda suggestions

2018-01-25 Thread Greg Gallagher
Adding some points that I think need some attention at the meeting. Drivers: Currently we have support for certain boards, SOC families and devices. Do we want to expand on that? Are there commonly used pieces of hardware that we want to add support for? For most devices it may be a port

[Xenomai] [RFC] FOSDEM meeting agenda

2018-01-25 Thread Philippe Gerum
Here are some points I would like to discuss during this meeting. Please feel free to comment: 1. Release management * Currently, the person who contributes most of the code is also the release manager, which is clearly not optimal. Both activities should be decoupled for efficiency

Re: [Xenomai] Posix vs Alchemy - multiplexing and registry

2018-01-25 Thread Philippe Gerum
On 01/25/2018 04:14 PM, Julien Blanc wrote: > Le jeudi 25 janvier 2018 à 15:21 +0100, Philippe Gerum a écrit : >> On 01/25/2018 02:43 PM, Julien Blanc wrote: >>>   >> There is no provision for I/O multiplexing with alchemy. Only the >> pipe object embeds a RTDM file descriptor which could be

Re: [Xenomai] Posix vs Alchemy - multiplexing and registry

2018-01-25 Thread Julien Blanc
Le jeudi 25 janvier 2018 à 15:21 +0100, Philippe Gerum a écrit : > On 01/25/2018 02:43 PM, Julien Blanc wrote: > >  > There is no provision for I/O multiplexing with alchemy. Only the > pipe object embeds a RTDM file descriptor which could be passed to > libcobalt's select() implementation, other

Re: [Xenomai] Posix vs Alchemy - multiplexing and registry

2018-01-25 Thread Philippe Gerum
On 01/25/2018 02:43 PM, Julien Blanc wrote: > Hi, > > We have a xenomai 3 application currently using the alchemy API > (application development started on xenomai 2.x). > > We would like to add I/O multiplexing in some parts of the application. > My understanding is that it is not supported by

[Xenomai] Posix vs Alchemy - multiplexing and registry

2018-01-25 Thread Julien Blanc
Hi, We have a xenomai 3 application currently using the alchemy API (application development started on xenomai 2.x). We would like to add I/O multiplexing in some parts of the application. My understanding is that it is not supported by the alchemy API, so we would have to resort to the Posix