UML has been sent to Linus

UML has been sent to Linus

[Jeff Dike]

I put together a patch against 2.5.1 and sent it in.

So, if you don't see it soon on a kernel mirror near you, start bugging
Linus :-)

				Jeff

Re: UML has been sent to Linus

[Jeff Dike]

andersg@0x63.nu said:
> is it available somewhere? 

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/user-mode-linux/uml-patch-2.5.1-1.bz2

plus it's mirrored in various places - start with 
	http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/dl-sf.html

It's the same UML as the 2.4.17 I released last night with some changes
in the block driver required by the bio changes.

				Jeff

Re: UML has been sent to Linus

[Daniel Phillips]

On December 28, 2001 07:35 am, Jeff Dike wrote:
> I put together a patch against 2.5.1 and sent it in.

This is good news.  I want to add something here that's a little less lame 
than 'me too'...

Besides being an essential development tool I use every day, I believe there 
is great potential for UML as a 'perfect jail'.  There are interesting 
applications we'll start to see when UML is more widely available, such as 
simulation of clusters, or 'Linux Bubbles' under Windows.

I think you've done a great job maintaining UML out-of-tree for more than a 
year, with very little assistance, and I hope you won't have to shoulder that 
extra burden much longer.

--
Daniel

Re: UML has been sent to Linus

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 01:35:47AM -0500, Jeff Dike wrote:
> I put together a patch against 2.5.1 and sent it in.
> 
> So, if you don't see it soon on a kernel mirror near you, start bugging
> Linus :-)
> 
> 				Jeff

Excellent! uml has been a very valuable tool for me to both learn kernel
programming and to get kernel programming done. And it's extremely cool.

IMHO it's excellent programming as well.


Thanks,
Bill

Re: UML has been sent to Linus

[Jeff Dike]

phillips@bonn-fries.net said:
> There are interesting  applications we'll start to see when UML is
> more widely available, such as  simulation of clusters, or 'Linux
> Bubbles' under Windows.

Yeah, there are a ton of interesting possibilities which I have probably not
done enough to publicize.

> I think you've done a great job maintaining UML out-of-tree 

Thanks!

> for more than a  year, with very little assistance, 

UML is approaching three years old (I started hacking in Feb 1998; 
the first public sign of it was the following June).

> and I hope you won't have to shoulder that  extra burden much longer.

Yeah, one can hope :-)

I'm currently banging on bugs and residual missing functionality.  When I
think that's all done, that will be what I call UML V1.0 and I will send
it to Marcelo.  At that point, the out-of-tree phase of UML will be over.

wli@holomorphy.com said:
> uml has been a very valuable tool for me to both learn kernel
> programming 

That's why I originally wrote it...

> and to get kernel programming done. And it's extremely
> cool.
> IMHO it's excellent programming as well.

Thanks, thanks, and thanks!

				Jeff