[Linux-ia64] UML support for Itanium?

[Linux-ia64] UML support for Itanium?

[Wichmann, Mats D]

I've been meaning to ask the question, but
never seem to get around to it.


Now that the UML "support" bits are in Linus'
2.5 tree, isn't it time to get more serious
about UML for Itanium?

Every now and then it seems someone pops up
who takes a whack at it, and then after a
while there's no further word....

UML (despite the acronym overloading) makes
a pretty handy test environment, you can
sandbox all sort of experiments that might
be somewhat intrusive otherwise.  For example,
I use it on ia32 to run a restricted
(LSB-only) environment for application 
conformance testing.

Folks have developed ways to build/test
driver code without rebuilding/rebooting
the host kernel, as a jail for web applications,
and so on.

Thoughts?

Re: [Linux-ia64] UML support for Itanium?

[David Mosberger]

>>>>> On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 12:14:50 -0800, "Wichmann, Mats D" <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com> said:

  Mats> Now that the UML "support" bits are in Linus' 2.5 tree, isn't
  Mats> it time to get more serious about UML for Itanium?

Check this discussion.  Should be of interest to you:

	http://www.gelato.org/community/reply.php?entry\x103

  --david

Re: [Linux-ia64] UML support for Itanium?

[Jeff Dike]

mats.d.wichmann@intel.com said:
> Now that the UML "support" bits are in Linus' 2.5 tree, 

It's not just UML support.  All of UML is there.

> isn't it time to get more serious about UML for Itanium? 

If this is more than a personal desire on your part, and Intel has some
desire for UML/IA64 and is willing to throw some money at the problem, then
I can certainly talk about contracting to do it.

				Jeff