[PATCH v1 0/6] [libbsd] Fix e1000 driver for i386 in master and 5

[Chris Johns]

On 15/8/20 8:31 am, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 4:42 PM Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org
> <mailto:chrisj at rtems.org>> wrote:
> 
>     On 15/8/20 5:57 am, Jan Sommer wrote:
>     > Hello,
>     >
>     > I finally got around to port the e1000 driver fixes which are already
>     > present in the 5-freebsd-12 branch of rtems-libbsd also for the master
>     > (and 5) branch.
> 
>     Thanks. I will push these soon.
> 
>     I am not sure if the 5 branch in the rtems-libbsd.git repo is right and if it
>     should be made from the 5-freebsd-12 branch? I feel it is currently confusing
>     but either way it has issues.
> 
> If I remember correctly, Sebastian told me 5 was FreeBSD master on RTEMS 5.
> If that's right, it would have been better with the longer name 5-freebsd-master
> since we use 5 as the name for other repos to indicate trusted "5".

Problems appear when we have variants in names because management around the
repos needs to handle special cases ...

https://git.rtems.org/rtems-release/tree/rtems-release-package-start?h=5#n109

On the other hand the difference in one repo like libbsd has created a special
case in the release scripts because 5 was being picked up and released without
error until I caught it testing. Thus the need for the mapping and that rippled
out in to other issues.

I am not sure what the answer is but any solution or change needs to be worked
through our procedures.

Chris