On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Gregory Perry <[email protected]> wrote: > Any chance of getting similar Xenomai support built into the mainline 3.8 > kernel for the BeagleBoard? A patch set for Xenomai support for the > BeagleBone was recently submitted to the Xenomai project, mainline kernel > support would in turn facilitate direct support from the Xenomai team for the > BeagleBone (probably wouldn't hurt to send the Xenomai team a care package of > a couple BeagleBoards/Bones etc to increase their enthusiasm about > maintaining support for both with their development efforts).
If there are individuals who would actively work on this, sending a couple of boards would be something I can do. I just don't want to go sending out boards that'll sit idle. Contact me with names/emails of people who will actively work this. > > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of > Paul [[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 7:27 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Xenomai] Xenomai, Raspberry Pi, 3.5.7 kernel > > Attached, a patch set aimed at providing support for the Broadcom > BCM2835 SoC as used in the Raspberry Pi[1]. > > The first patch assumes that the core-ipipe-3.5.7-arm patch has already > been applied or the sources have been pulled from the ipipe git > repository[2]. Most of the changes have been pulled from the 3.6.11 > kernel sources maintained by the Rasbperry team and adds a number of > drivers needed by the BCM2835 chip. Low level changes to the timer > support have been made courtesy of ian-cim and his preliminary 3.2.21 > patch[3] > > Patch number 2 silences a trivial compile time warning and can be > skipped.. > Patch number three adds a minimal default config (bcmrpi_defconfig) that > can be used as a basis for compiling a Xenomai enabled kernel. This > patch can also be skipped if a defconfig is not required. > > Patch number four makes some changes to the way GPIO interrupts are > handled - Interrupt latencies are considerably improved (typically in > the 15-30uS range). > > Work is being undertaken by the Raspberry team to get support built in > to the mainline kernel - I believe the window has been missed for > 3.8.x, so fingers are crossed for 3.10.x. > > > Regards, Paul. > > > [1] www.raspberrypi.org > [2] git://git.denx.de/ipipe.git > [3] www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=12368 > > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: raspberry-pi.bz2 > Type: application/x-bzip2 > Size: 458222 bytes > Desc: not available > URL: > <http://www.xenomai.org/pipermail/xenomai/attachments/20130214/bb9244d7/attachment.bin> > _______________________________________________ > Xenomai mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.xenomai.org/mailman/listinfo/xenomai > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > _______________________________________________ Xenomai mailing list [email protected] http://www.xenomai.org/mailman/listinfo/xenomai
