[uml-devel] Re: UML-patches to prepare UML/s390

[Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>]

On Sunday 24 April 2005 18:51, Jeff Dike wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 04:44:37PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote:
> > Btw, many of the code movement things are just cut'n'paste things, so for
> > them there is no reason to delay them. Now we are going to merge them for
> > 2.6.13-rc1 (for .12 it's too late), but every other delay increases the
> > possibility that we fix somehow the code we are moving and forget to do
> > the same on the moved code.

> Yeah, that's a concern.  I'm holding onto the code movement because I want
> to look at the os interface that resulted from it, and see if it can be
> cleaned up.
Happy for that.

> > Finally, about the syscall table patches for s390: I'm going to merge
> > into -mm the syscall table patches you can find in the last -devel
> > snapshot I put on my page (the uploaded ones maybe are out-of-date, but
> > I'll cc you on patches).

> What patch is this?  All I see is a patch which makes some small fixes to
> the sys_call_table.
No, I don't mean -bs, I mean the DEVEL snapshot. It's under 
patches/devel-guest/, and other will follow (when I have broad-band).

However the updated patches are flying to you (plural, since they also relate 
with s390 port).

> > They entirely remove the UML syscall table to replace it with the
> > $(SUBARCH) one (there is some hand-work to do for each subarch but it's
> > much less than before). While doing this I also fixed various little bugs
> > about this subject.
>
> Don't send that anywhere until I've seen it.  Your description of it makes
> me nervous.
I'm sending it for -mm only, and it's marked as such. Also it won't silently 
slip since it acts a bit on i386.

-- 
Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade
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