From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14878 invoked by alias); 18 Mar 2003 18:25:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 14825 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2003 18:25:21 -0000 Subject: Re: Patches for the eCos 2.0 branch From: Gary Thomas To: Nick Garnett Cc: John Dallaway , eCos Maintainers In-Reply-To: References: <200303180848.24682.jld@ecoscentric.com> <1047995318.7459.2925.camel@hermes.chez-thomas.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 (1.0.3-4) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 18:25:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1048011920.9579.3582.camel@hermes.chez-thomas.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2003-03/txt/msg00015.txt.bz2 On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 11:09, Nick Garnett wrote: > Gary Thomas writes: > > > > > > > To avoid invalidating beta testing, we need to be very careful about what > > > goes into the 2.0 branch. Does the CPM/DPRAM allocator patch address a > > > known problem or is it purely delivering a new feature? > > > > > > > IMO it addresses a long-standing deficiency. > > Indeed. > > > > > > I would like to see some more formal consensus among the maintainers on what > > > goes in to the 2.0 branch from here on. > > > > Just doing as I was asked. > > If this change does not go in to the v2 branch then I will have to > check a slightly different version of the quicc ethernet driver in > there than the one I checked into the trunk. > > Gary's patch also introduces an incompatibility between old and new > RedBoots/eCoses, since management of the DPRAM is now shared. Without > it eCoses build with V2 cannot run on RedBoots built out of the trunk, > and vice versa. So I think it is essential. Actually, I tried to make it such that a dependency does not exist (note the most recent version which this patch reflects does try and work properly even without an updated RedBoot). I may have missed the mark, but I did try. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | MLB Associates | Consulting for the +1 (970) 229-1963 | Embedded world http://www.mlbassoc.com/ | email: | gpg: http://www.chez-thomas.org/gary/gpg_key.asc ------------------------------------------------------------