[User-mode-linux-devel] Re: more uml 2.3.49 results and a first pass rpm of the root filesystem.

[Jeff D. <jd...@ka...>]

wst...@po... said:
> Unimplemented syscall : 197
>                            Untested (2216) [0x10154c48]:
> syscall_kern.c line 672 

That's fstat64.  I was wondering when I was going to start seeing the 64-bit 
system calls.

I've got a new kernel brewing with the SIGIO fix, some code to try to trap the 
syscall 0 thing, and a few more syscalls hooked up.  I'll add fstat64 and send 
it to sourceforge, and let you know when it's there.

> Does the root_fs need to be contiguous, or can the uml kernel open a
> root_fs that's not?

If you did dd of=filename rather than dd of=devname, then you got a normal, 
not necessarily contiguous file.  The kernel doesn't care.

> I'd suggest that.  Have a uml-rhroot-6.2, uml-rhroot-6.0,
> uml-debroot-2.0, etc. rpms for the root and uml-kernel-2.3.49,
> uml-kernel-2.3.46, etc.

I was originally against this, on the grounds that you don't change 
environments all that often, and when you do, you might as well grab the 
appropriate package, along with the latest kernel, since it doesn't add much 
in terms of download time.

The idea has grown on me, though.  If we get a good variety of enviromnents, 
then people might switch between them more often, and this packaging makes it 
clear that it's possible.

I would prefer to ship them as compressed tar files, though.  People wanting 
to try out a RH environment aren't necessarily going to have rpm available.

				Jeff