Re: Patches for the eCos 2.0 branch

[Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>]

On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 11:09, Nick Garnett wrote:
> 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.

Actually, I tried to make it such that a dependency does not exist
(note the most recent version which this patch reflects does try 
and work properly even without an updated RedBoot).  I may have
missed the mark, but I did try.

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