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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 17:37:09 +0200
Subject: [Buildroot] simicsfs 1.18 does not build with kernel 4.12.2
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Hello,

On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 22:26:59 +0800, Bin Meng wrote:

> The latest simicsfs kernel module (v1.22) supports latest kernel, and
> is available in the simics open source package.

Is this "simics open source package" publicly available ?

> However they are moving away from the simicsfs kernel module,
> replacing it with the user mode Simics Agent (Matic). They've seen
> that the kernel module has required too much maintenance work. For
> this reason they don't want to encourage use of it.

So, we want to get rid of the simicsfs package in Buildroot ?

Thomas
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