From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 11:31:32 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] simicsfs 1.18 does not build with kernel 4.12.2 In-Reply-To: References: <20170824193354.782bae38@windsurf> <20170824230211.4c0ea814@windsurf> <20170829173709.23c345a6@windsurf.lan> Message-ID: <20170830113132.05c061ba@windsurf.lan> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 17:25:51 +0800, Bin Meng wrote: > >> 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 ? > > I think so. Since they do not want new users of SimicsFS I don't think > we want buildroot to automatically include it. Users should move to > the Simics Agent instead. Otherwise they will be stuck supporting > SimicsFS. OK. Could you send a patch dropping the Buildroot package? Don't forget to add the relevant logic in Config.in.legacy, and the entry in the DEVELOPERS file. Thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com