Re: Patches for the eCos 2.0 branch

[Nick Garnett <nickg at ecoscentric dot com>]

Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com> 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.


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Nick Garnett                    eCos Kernel Architect
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