Re: [Dovetail] x86 test version available (kernel v5.10)

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 31.01.21 17:06, Philippe Gerum wrote:
> 
> The initial port of the Cobalt core to Dovetail/x86 is available from
> [1]. Ports to Dovetail/ARM and Dovetail/arm64 should follow within a
> couple of weeks.
> 
> So far, latency and switchtest run flawlessly. Most of the smokey test
> suite passes successfully, except the GDB test at the moment.
> 
> How to test this:
> 
> - clone Xenomai from [1], switch to branch for-upstream/dovetail
> - clone the Dovetail tree (v5.10) from [2], switch to branch dovetail/master
> - run scripts/prepare-kernel.sh available from [1] into [2] (usual procedure)
>   for x86, that would be: .../scripts/prepare-kernel.sh --arch=x86
> - build your kernel using the sources from [2]
> 
> There is no user-visible Kconfig change compared to an I-pipe based
> version.
> 
> Alternatively, the Xenomai code base in [1] can also run on top of the
> I-pipe. prepare-kernel.sh detects which pipeline flavour is there, and
> prepares the source tree accordingly.
> 
> This code is being gradually merged into Xenomai's -next branch, and
> will be at the core of Xenomai 3.2. Testing and feedback appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> [1] https://lab.xenomai.org/xenomai-rpm.git, "for-upstream/dovetail" branch
> [2] https://git.evlproject.org/linux-evl.git, "dovetail/master" branch
> 

First try on my end looked good as well - great news, well done!

Would it help to stick the wip branch into our CI/CT?

Will have a look at the next round of pending patches.

Jan

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