On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 05:44:34PM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote:
> There are sites (http://uml.nagafix.co.uk/ being the best one I know
> of) where, with two downloads, two uncompressions, and one command
> line later, you have a booted UML.
>
> The only way I know of to improve on this, aside from inpr
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 10:40:10PM +0200, roland wrote:
> btw - i think besides that packaged uml+rootfs, the same thing could be
> distributed in other formats, i.e. qemu, vmware, M$ virtual pc (add your
> favourite v12n solution here)
There are sites (http://uml.nagafix.co.uk/ being the best o
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>> Why? I've never understood what a framebuffer gives you that you
>> don't have now.
> Just like the network auto-configuration via dhcp, it would allow users to
> download images+kernel and run them like appliances without understanding
> anything about X or UML, just click and run.
mhh, i a
i´d like to acknowledge that this fixes the problem i had when creating
loop-devices inside uml.
instead of crashing the whole uml, losetup now tells:
ioctl: LOOP_SET_FD: Resource temporarily unavailable
and dmesg:
Apr 2 20:17:53 localhost udevd[641]: udev_event_run: fork of child failed:
Re
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Comment the lack of locking on a couple of globals.
Also fix the formatting of __setup_host_supports_tls.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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arch/um/sys-i386/tls.c | 11 ---
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6.21-mm/arch/um/sys-i386/tls.c
These patches tidy up various things and can wait till 2.6.22.
Jeff
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kernel_thread should just return an error value on do_fork failure, not panic.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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arch/um/kernel/process.c |2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6.21-mm/arch/um/kernel/process.c
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userspace code used to have to call the kernelspace function
page_size() in order to determine the value of the kernel's PAGE_SIZE.
Since this is now available directly from kern_constants.h as
UM_KERN_PAGE_SIZE, page_size() can be deleted and calls changed to use
the constant.
Signed-off-by: Jeff
Clean up arch/um/kernel/process.c -
lots of return(x); -> return x; conversions
a number of the small functions are either unused, in which
case they are gone, along any declarations in a header, or could be
made static.
current_pid is ifdefed on CONFIG_MODE_TT and its decla
Jeff Dike wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 01:22:00PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> There are patches floating around for a UML frame buffer device.
>> Gerd Kraxel^H^H^H^H^H^HHoffmann did one using plain X11, which worked
>> great when I gave it a try.
>>
>> I suggest taking a look at Gerd's
Jeff Dike wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 11:21:43AM +0100, Antoine Martin wrote:
>> Just like the network auto-configuration via dhcp, it would allow users
>> to download images+kernel and run them like appliances without
>> understanding anything about X or UML, just click and run.
>
> True,
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 11:21:43AM +0100, Antoine Martin wrote:
> Just like the network auto-configuration via dhcp, it would allow users
> to download images+kernel and run them like appliances without
> understanding anything about X or UML, just click and run.
True, but I don't see that as be
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 01:22:00PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> There are patches floating around for a UML frame buffer device.
> Gerd Kraxel^H^H^H^H^H^HHoffmann did one using plain X11, which worked
> great when I gave it a try.
>
> I suggest taking a look at Gerd's patches. IIRC, he poste
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On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Gerd Kraxel^H^H^H^H^H^HHoffmann did one using plain X11, which worked
^^
Sorry, this should have been `Knorr'.
> great when I gave it a try.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
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On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Antoine Martin wrote:
> Jeff Dike wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 08:58:45PM +0100, Antoine Martin wrote:
> >> I reckon that one critical thing which could drastically increase the
> >> user base would be to have a working virtual framebuffer implementation.
> >
> > Why? I
Jeff Dike wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 08:58:45PM +0100, Antoine Martin wrote:
>> I reckon that one critical thing which could drastically increase the
>> user base would be to have a working virtual framebuffer implementation.
>
> Why? I've never understood what a framebuffer gives you that
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