[gBootRoot-devel] ANN: gBootRoot 1.5.0

[Jonathan R. <fre...@ul...>]

This is to announce the release of gBootRoot 1.5.0.

gBootRoot provides an integrated development environment to easily
create root_fs for use by User-Mode Linux.  The UML box allows easy
testing/running of root_fs including support for jffs/jffs2 root_fs
with the help of a pre-made Initrd.  Gbootroot creates itself via
User-Mode Linux from a source package that provides a convenient
method to keep up with jdike's latest patches.

The gBootRoot home page is at http://gbootroot.sf.net

Changes:

* New if/elsif control structure for Yard template
* Binary packages compiled for >= glibc 2.2.5
* Many fixes to source packages
* Several bug fixes and improvements
* uml-patch 2.4.20-1 and uml_utilities 20030202

Notes and observations:

Tested on Debian stable/unstable and rpm based distros RedHat 7.3/8.0,
Mandrake 9.0, and Suse 7.3 thanks to umlbuilder.  Overall, this is by
far the most heavily tested release to date. 

Suse users may need to edit /usr/include/asm/ptrace.h adding "#define
FRAME_SIZE 17" after the "#define SS 16" line or else uml won't
compile.  This was observed in Suse 7.3.

Observed that kernel stack overflows are occurring from time to time
in the nested environment.

Enjoy.

Jonathan