From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751248AbdCQQXT (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:23:19 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:59910 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751057AbdCQQXC (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:23:02 -0400 Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 16:46:43 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Natale Patriciello Cc: user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: UML not maintained anymore? Message-ID: <20170317154643.GE4771@amd> References: <20170228152811.vwn5koz3jhweeo7o@judith.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ILuaRSyQpoVaJ1HG" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170228152811.vwn5koz3jhweeo7o@judith.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --ILuaRSyQpoVaJ1HG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue 2017-02-28 16:28:11, Natale Patriciello wrote: > It seems there is no interest in fixing bugs (such as [1]). Moreover, > same guest filesystem (same host os, distribution, etc.) on two > different machines (i7-2630 the first, i7-7700HQ the second) yield > different results, with crashes and corruption of filesystem in the > modern computer. So, can I consider UML as a legacy thing in the Linux > kernel? With what I can replace it (I'm doing TCP research, and I focus > on the networking stack)? Well.. if it worked before and does not work now, that's a regression and will be fixed. Bisect would be useful. If it never worked on new CPUs, that's different situation... Pavel --=20 (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blo= g.html --ILuaRSyQpoVaJ1HG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAljMBOMACgkQMOfwapXb+vJZ+wCdF2+qvniaY+XPQiH6/0EGU4Z7 kT8AnAgdsVIL/2RqQk4BbL3Zb9xxu+hY =zrq1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ILuaRSyQpoVaJ1HG--