From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AY5hk-00086O-Dz for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Sun, 21 Dec 2003 07:41:16 -0800 Received: from smtp001.mail.ukl.yahoo.com ([217.12.11.32]) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with smtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AY5hj-0002Ti-Sh for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Sun, 21 Dec 2003 07:41:16 -0800 From: BlaisorBlade Subject: Re: [uml-devel] UML on Alpha References: <20031220052032.GC1152@erdos.home> In-Reply-To: <20031220052032.GC1152@erdos.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312211644.39563.blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it> Sender: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: The user-mode Linux development list List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 16:44:38 +0100 To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Alle 06:20, sabato 20 dicembre 2003, Cameron Patrick ha scritto: > Hi all, > > I've been looking into porting User-Mode Linux to the alpha. I've made > a start by copying the i386-specific bits into {sys,sysdep,etc}-alpha, > following the porting guide on u-m-l.sf.net (which is sadly out of > date), and generally hacking stuff so that it looked appropriate. > Large portions of the kernel now seem to compile :-D. Are you working on 2.4 or 2.6? I'd suggest the second choice, since otherwise you'll have to duplicate part of the work(recheck patches...). It is true than 2.6 still waits for some patches applied to 2.4, so you may get some more troubles(module loading still doesn't work in the vanilla tree, but search in the archives a few days ago for an up-to-date patch I posted and disable MODVERSIONS). But by the time you finish the porting, I think(or hope) that development will have moved to 2.6. Note: by "vanilla" I mean 2.6 + the 2.6 patch you find on the UML site; 2.6 includes some bits of the UML arch, but it doesn't work and Linus refused patches, so it's confusing. -- cat <