4.11 branch point

[Joel Sherrill]

On April 19, 2015 7:39:22 PM CDT, Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:
>On 18/04/2015 12:06 am, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 4/17/2015 5:11 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I think everything for the 4.11 release is now in the tree. It would
>be 
>>> good to do the branch soon, since the watchdog changes and the
>FreeBSD 
>>> timecounters should probably be not in the release. We can test and 
>>> polish for the release in the branch.
>>>
>> Agreed.  Nothing is really outstanding AFAIK from a patch
>perspective.
>> I still need to run coverage and post reports. We haven't looked at
>that
>> in a while and the changes could have negatively impacted that. That
>> can be post-branching.
>> 
>> Are you including the new timer server implementation you just
>> posted as a post-branching merge?
>> 
>> I would like to do a build and test sweep before we branch. Daniel's
>> patch was quite large and I just want to make sure all is OK still.
>> But nothing really blocking except a sanity check. All built OK
>overnight
>> and the test runs have been acceptable.
>> 
>> This is the point at which feedback from real hardware from user's
>would be
>> appreciated but I won't hold a release waiting for any. I will be
>doing
>> a sweep
>> on simulators.  Anything additional is a plus.
>> 
>> I would really like for Chris to be back from holidays before we push
>> the button. Just in case. :)
>> 
>
>I think the master branch is ready. I think we need to review the wiki
>to get a single clear Getting Starting guide.

Agreed. I have a handful of small patches from building over the weekend. Nios C++ support is going to require a gcc patch. I am currently running tests on every bsp that we have a simulator for.

My tasks are to finish the run and review results. Fix Nios C++. And push those patches.

If someone can review the getting started that would be appreciated.

>Chris

--joel