[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] xenomai: bump version to 3.0.3

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Mar 21 09:19:01 UTC 2017


Hello,

On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 09:57:35 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

> > My understanding was that Xenomai 3.x was significantly different from
> > Xenomai 2.x. Should we support both versions? Is Xenomai 3.x now old
> > enough that Xenomai 2.x is considered legacy? What problems will people
> > currently using Xenomai 2.x face if we ask them to move to Xenomai 3.x?  
> 
>  There are some API differences, but (at least in dual-kernel mode), it is
> pretty easy to port over. I think we have lots of packages where version bumps
> introduce slight behavioural changes so I think this is OK.

OK, thanks. As long as it doesn't require people having Xenomai
applications to do a full rewrite, then I'm fine with a bump to 3.X as
opposed to supporting both 2.x and 3.x. Minor adaptations are OK, just
like is often needed when upgrading libraries, as you said.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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