Patch(es) to be applied to RTEMS distribution packages

Ralf Corsepius ralf.corsepius at rtems.org
Sat May 17 10:34:39 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 14:32 -0500, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> John Pickwick wrote:
> > Hi to all,
> > hmmm a newbie question but it comes to my mind each time I have to 
> > recompile the kernel :=) In fact that's a general "package" question.
> >  
> > There are many *.diff patches in the SRC directory of the RTEMS ftp site.
> >  
> > For example for newlib-1.15.0:
> > newlib-1.15.0-rtems4.8-20070202.diff
> > newlib-1.15.0-rtems4.8-20070208.diff
> > newlib-1.15.0-rtems4.8-20070316.diff
> > newlib-1.15.0-rtems4.8-20070413.diff
> > newlib-1.15.0-rtems4.8-20070804.diff
> > newlib-1.15.0-rtems4.8-20070912.diff
> > newlib-1.15.0-rtems4.8-20071221.diff
> >  
> > Should ALL the patches be applied or should I just take the most 
> > recent one ?
> >  
> Only the most recent. 
> 
> The patches are also available in the rtems source tree
> in contrib/crossrpms/patches.  Be aware that the patches
> on the ftp server are likely to be newer than those included
> in 4.8.0. 
The master sources are those to be found in the
contrib/crossrpms/patches directory.

For rtems-4.8, those on rtems-4-8-branch, for rtems-4.7, those on
rtems-4-7-branch and for rtems-4.9 those in CVS-HEAD.

Ralf





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