rtems-libbsd: 6-freebsd-12 branch

[Gedare Bloom]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 9:29 PM Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

At the very least, it should be well-documented in the libbsd README.

> Thanks
> Chris