From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29864 invoked by alias); 18 Mar 2003 18:09:16 -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 29810 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2003 18:09:15 -0000 To: Gary Thomas Cc: John Dallaway , eCos Maintainers Subject: Re: Patches for the eCos 2.0 branch References: <200303180848.24682.jld@ecoscentric.com> <1047995318.7459.2925.camel@hermes.chez-thomas.org> From: Nick Garnett Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 18:09:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <1047995318.7459.2925.camel@hermes.chez-thomas.org> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-03/txt/msg00013.txt.bz2 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. -- Nick Garnett eCos Kernel Architect http://www.ecoscentric.com/ The eCos and RedBoot experts