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| author | Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr> | 2015-03-26 23:45:15 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> | 2015-03-29 15:21:37 +0200 |
| commit | 88f80b312304bf900f8ce3c2caf41991d8a15875 (patch) | |
| tree | 388426ea522c08a38fb9b0432f17aea43768bf83 /linux | |
| parent | e0fe88ea2aa146b64752ab82e7eb6d7d476e6b25 (diff) | |
linux-ext: update Xenomai help text
Reword the help text and get ride of the supported kernel
version list which is outdated since Xenomai version bump.
[Thomas: rewrap text to the appropriate length, fix some typos.]
Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | linux/Config.ext.in | 22 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/linux/Config.ext.in b/linux/Config.ext.in index 8f156874f..c909254cd 100644 --- a/linux/Config.ext.in +++ b/linux/Config.ext.in @@ -8,13 +8,21 @@ config BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_EXT_XENOMAI BR2_bfin || BR2_powerpc || BR2_sh4 select BR2_PACKAGE_XENOMAI help - Xenomai Kernel part. + Xenomai is split in two parts: a kernel part and a userspace + part. Enabling this option automatically selects the Xenomai + package and helps in patching the Linux kernel built by + Buildroot with the Xenomai kernel part (ie Adeos/Ipipe). - In the current version of Xenomai, the following kernel - versions are supported: on Blackfin, 2.6.34 and 2.6.36.9, on - SH4, 2.6.32.10, on x86, 2.6.35.9, 2.6.37.6, 2.6.38.8, on - ARM, 2.6.35.9, 2.6.37.6, 2.6.38.8, on NIOS2, 2.6.35, on - PowerPC, 2.6.35.7, 2.6.36.4, 3.0.8. + You can find the currently supported kernel versions by + looking at the available patches in the Xenomai sources + tree: ksrc/arch/$(ARCH)/patches + + However, it is recommended to use the latest version of the + Adeos/Ipipe patch available at + http://download.gna.org/adeos/patches + + Xenomai is know to support Blackfin, SH4, x86, ARM, NIOS2 + and PowerPC architectures. comment "xenomai needs a toolchain w/ threads" depends on BR2_i386 || BR2_x86_64 || BR2_arm || \ @@ -26,7 +34,7 @@ config BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_EXT_XENOMAI_ADEOS_PATCH string "Path for Adeos patch file" help Optionally, explicitly specify the Adeos patch to use. - Download it at http://download.gna.org/adeos/patches/v2.6/$(ARCH)/ + Download it at http://download.gna.org/adeos/patches and verify that your kernel version in buildroot matches. # RTAI |