Re: [uml-devel] Re: [uml-user] UML on PPC? state of the art

[BlaisorBlade <blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it>]

On Monday 18 October 2004 22:55, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, BlaisorBlade wrote:
> > On Monday 18 October 2004 17:58, SteX wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > does anyone know if the porting of UML on PPC has still been staled? or
> > > anyone has started working on?
> > > My Apple Powerbook is crying! ((:-((
> > >
> > > I found something about the porting on Chris Emerson's home page, but
> > > it is staled sice july 2001!
> >
> > Where's that page?
> >
> > > Let me know.
> > >
> > > Thank you in advance
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > SteX
> >
> > Nobody is working on the PPC port. If someone wants to start helping, we
> > will welcome him. Currently, the interest in UML is increasing, new
> > developers come in, and after a lot of time, a new architecture (x86_64)
> > is being supported. Also we've seen messages from people starting work to
> > port UML even to ARM machines(!). No actual code, yet, so I suppose they
> > stopped.
> >
> > However, nobody removed the old code from UML. It has even been accepted
> > in the 2.6 kernel, even if it is completely broken.
>
> Side question: does the !i386 uml options depend on BROKEN in kconfig?
No - but actually I do not think there is a such "Kconfig option". You should 
add SUBARCH=ppc on the command line to cross-build it. A good idea could be 
"echo WARNING - code currrently broken". However it's quite impossible for it 
to build at all.

Bye
-- 
Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade
Linux registered user n. 292729


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