On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 8:44 PM, H M Thalib<hmtha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi  Manish,
>
> Manish Katiyar wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Flavio<fbcyb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 2009/8/5 Manish Katiyar <mkati...@gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>> My question is how do people build modules which are specific to a
>>>> particular architecture on UML ? Is it possible ?
>>>
>>> Sure!
>>> Are you compiling the kernel modules from the host system? If not,
>>> try to do it.
>>> The exact procedure is the following:
>>> # mount -o loop rootfs loop_dir/
>>> # cd /uml/src/linux
>>> # make modules ARCH=um
>>> # make modules_install INSTALL_MOD_PATH=/uml/loop_dir ARCH=um
>>> # umount /uml/loop_dir
>>>
>>> Then, boot the UML again.
>>
>> Hi Flavio,
>>
>> I have done that step and my UML kernel boots fine. My question is in
>> UML environment what will the ARCH resolve to ? will it be um or x86 ?
>>
>> Thanks -
>> Manish
>>
>>
>>> Flavio
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> It will um. Actualy UML is a port of the Linux kernel as a normal Intel
> Linux process.

So that would mean that any new kernel module that I compile has to be
prefixed with ARCH=um ??? because my kernel source resides on host and
has been configured as um. If I compile any x86 module from UML it
will fail because the asm directory in kernel source points to asm-um
and not asm-x86. Isn't it ?? Or I am just talking senseless :-( ...

Below is how my directory structures look like.

-bash-3.2# ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.30.4/source/include/
total 120
-rw-r--r--  1 mkatiyar 5573   218 Jul 30 18:34 Kbuild
drwxr-xr-x  3 mkatiyar 5573  4096 Jul 30 18:34 acpi
lrwxrwxrwx  1 mkatiyar 5573     6 Aug  5 06:16 asm -> asm-um

-bash-3.2# ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.30.4/
total 64
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   42 Aug  4 13:36 build ->
/home/mkatiyar/personal/uml/linux-2.6.30.4
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Aug  5 06:18 kernel
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  265 Aug  5 11:01 modules.alias
..............
...............
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  189 Aug  5 11:01 modules.usbmap
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   42 Aug  5 06:18 source ->
/home/mkatiyar/personal/uml/linux-2.6.30.4

-bash-3.2# ls -l /home/mkatiyar
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Aug  4 14:48 personal ->
/mnt/host/home/mkatiyar/personal


-bash-3.2# mount
/dev/ubda on / type auto (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
none on /mnt/host type hostfs (rw)


Thanks -
Manish



>
> --
> Thanks & Regards,
> H M Thalib.
>



-- 
Thanks -
Manish

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