From: Per Oberg <pero@wolfram.com>
To: xenomai@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: Xenomai Wiki updates
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 01:14:47 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1565342606.3314781.1694585687078.JavaMail.zimbra@wolfram.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23f187f0-44b0-4657-b137-c0fded0671f0@siemens.com>
----- Den 12 sep 2023, på kl 19:21, Jan Kiszka jan.kiszka@siemens.com skrev:
> On 12.09.23 21:17, Per Oberg wrote:
> > ----- Den 12 sep 2023, på kl 17:30, Per Öberg pero@wolfram.com skrev:
> >> ----- Den 4 sep 2023, på kl 14:20, Jan Kiszka jan.kiszka@siemens.com skrev:
> >>> On 04.09.23 12:14, Per Oberg wrote:
> >>>> Hi
> >>>> I was looking at the Xenomai Wiki and noticed that there were some outdated
> >>>> information.
> >>>> E.g. :
> >>>> * https://source.denx.de/Xenomai/xenomai/-/wikis/Installing_Xenomai_3
> >>>> Dovetail, kernel git trees and recommendations are not mentioned. There is a
> >>>> section on the powerpc part which I seem to remember has been deprecated.
> >>>> * https://source.denx.de/Xenomai/xenomai/-/wikis/Start_Here
> >>>> Embedded Linux distributions & Xenomai points to ELDK which seems to be no
> >>>> longer available.
> >>>> I think I might find some time update some of the stuff. What are the guidelines
> >>>> and procedure to contribute to th Wiki ?
> >>> The landing page(s) are being reworked right now, and that will widely
> >>> replace the wiki-based homepage. Will probably surface other issues. If
> >>> you like to check that instead: https://v3.xenomai.org. Feedback highly
> >>> appreciated!
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Jan
> >>> --
> >>> Siemens AG, Technology
> >>> Linux Expert Center
> >> Thanks, I am currently looking at this and I will try to get back with feedback
> >> and patches when I find the time.
> >> Some early notes:
> >> * It's a bit unclear the relation between dovetail and evl. It's not obvious
> >> that dovetail
> >> is available for Xenomai 3 depending on kernel version.
> >> * The Xenomai3 installation page [1] mixes "--ipipe" and "--dovetail" where
> >> "--ipipe"
> >> is used in the black box and "--dovetail" in the list below.
> >> * The installation page [1] only talkes about the "prepare-kernel.sh" approach.
> >> I always
> >> found that approach a little error prone because it is necessary to find a
> >> kernel matching
> >> the version to patch. Perhaps it is better these days but for very special
> >> hardware it
> >> used to be hard to find the exakt version as time went by. So, it seems like the
> >> simpler
> >> approach is to check out the git-versioned variant available in the tree.
> >> Perhaps the
> >> installation page could mention the git-tree approach.
> >> [1] https://v3.xenomai.org/installation/
> >> Per Öberg
> > Answering myself here...
>> What I meant with "The installation page [1] only talkes about the
>> "prepare-kernel.sh" approach." was the use of "--ipipe" or "--dovetail"
> > separately, I think.
> > Per Öberg
> Are you able to send merge requests against [0]? Otherwise, please send
> patches to the list, marking them as "[website][PATCH] ...".
> Thank a lot already for your findings!
> Jan
> [0]
> https://source.denx.de/Xenomai/website/-/blob/master/content/installation/_index.md?ref_type=heads
> --
> Siemens AG, Technology
> Linux Expert Center
I will give it a go!
Thanks
Per Öberg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-13 6:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-04 10:14 Xenomai Wiki updates Per Oberg
2023-09-04 12:20 ` Jan Kiszka
2023-09-12 15:30 ` Per Oberg
2023-09-12 15:47 ` Per Oberg
2023-09-12 17:21 ` Jan Kiszka
2023-09-13 6:14 ` Per Oberg [this message]
2023-09-04 12:35 ` Philippe Gerum
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