From: Gerd K. <kr...@by...> - 2004-08-20 12:42:06
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Hi, I've just uploaded a bunch of uml kernel patches to http://www.suse.de/~kraxel/uml/patches/ This basically is the current state of the suse kernel for the next suse linux release. The patches create one source tree for both i386 and uml kernels. Some of these patches have been mailed to this list in the past. The README for the patch kit is attached below for convenience. What is the status of the amd64 port? The 2.6.4 patch on sf.net produces lots of rejects when I try to apply it on top of the 2.6.7 uml patch. Is a newer version available somewhere? Or can I just ignore all the rejects (guess not)? What is the status if the umlfb/x11/pthread issue, i.e. uml kernel crashing as soon as one tries to link against libpthread (which is needed for libX11)? Any progress here? Gerd ==============================[ cut here ]============================== kraxel's 2.6.8 uml patch kit [2004-08-20] ========================================= The patches must be applied in the order listed here. Patch descriptions: host-skas3-2.6.7-v1.patch blaisorblade's skas patch -- as-is uml-patch-2.6.7-2 jeff's uml patch -- with some stuff removed which is already in the skas patch. uml-fix-skas some fixes needed to make the resulting tree build for both i386 and um archs. uml-fixes-for-2.6.8 some updates to make uml build on 2.6.8 uml-extraversion don't change the EXTRAVERSION uml-raise-tty-limit use 16 instead of 8 ttys. uml-pretend-to-be-i586 make the uml virtual machine claim to be a i586 machine. At least suse's yast2 installer will pick the glibc version without tls/nptl support then, thus this avoids trouble due to the the not-yet implemented tls/nptl syscalls in uml kernels. Maybe useful for other distros as well. uml-core-on-panic Make the uml kernel dump core on kernel panics for later analysis. Default: off, there is a kernel cmd line arg to enable that. uml-fix-umldir-order fold the tree setup functions in umid.c into one, fixes some init call ordering issue I had some time ago. Also makes the error messages more verbose. uml-fix-export-symbol exports one missing symbol (needed for xfs). uml-general-protection-fault attempt to handle general protection faults more correctly. uml-net-flush-on-ifup flush incoming packets on ifup -- fixes networks stalls which happen in case the unix socket buffer is already full when the interface is up'ed (due to SIGIO never signaling arrived data). uml-fix-mconsole-proc fix kernel crash triggered by running "uml_mconsole <umid> proc <some-file>" multipole times. uml-terminal-cleanup tty / console handling cleanups. The patchfile itself has a long description. |