rtems-libbsd: 6-freebsd-12 branch

[Chris Johns]

On 29/7/20 1:16 am, Christian Mauderer wrote:
> On 28/07/2020 17:14, Gedare Bloom wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 7:29 AM Christian Mauderer
>> <christian.mauderer at embedded-brains.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I sent a few patches about ten days ago that add some features (like a
>>> GPIO driver for i.MX that is based on the RTEMS i.MX GPIO driver that I
>>> also posted). I would like to push them soon.
>>>
>>> Normally I would have pushed them to master and 5-freebsd-12. But the
>>> later one is now a release branch and shouldn't get new features. Would
>>> that be a good time to create a 6-freebsd-12 branch?
>>>
>>
>> I would let Sebastian or Chris decide. Do we anticipate having a
>> paired release of RTEMS-6 with FreeBSD-12? (Probably so, since we try
>> to reduce the release cycle time.)
> 
> If not: Would it rather be a 6-freebsd-stable branch? With that name we
> can update it to 13 as soon as FreeBSD makes that jump.

I think 6-freebsd-12. I am not sure about using stable as a user tracking the
branch may get a surprise when it jumps to from 12 to 13.

Please add a 6-freebsd-12 branch.

It would be nice something was added to the eng manual on this topic.

Thanks
Chris