responses in context.
At 12:31 PM 6/14/01 -0400, you wrote:
>I just upgraded to kernel 2.4.6-pre3 - there are several important VM
>fixes in there which will likely have an effect on w4l, especially for
>those ppl who are having the "slowness" issues.
>
>Problem is, the patch does not apply clean to the kernel, one of the
>hunks for arch/i386/kernel/entry.S fails. I manually applied using my
>best judgement, and the kernel complied and booted fine. But I got a
>problem when the init script for Win4Lin ran in the boot process -
>something to do with vnet - something to the effect of "found kernel
>BUG" with a stack dump following. Once booted, attempting to start
>win4lin results in an 'vm86 process died'.
>
>So - any chance of a working 2.4.6-pre3 patch?
We do not produce any "pre" patches. At best you can expect a patch
within a few days to a few weeks after a new patch has been officially
released.
Timing depends on current priorities and time to test.
>Also, I realize this may be an ignorant question - but it deserves
>asking and serious thought by the developers: Is there a critical
>reason why Win4Lin needs to patch the kernel in order to work? If there
>was any way for it to build kernel modules and simply load those w/o
>patching the kernel directly (a la vmware) it would be a pretty
>important change for the better IMHO. It would definitely make it
>possible for a much wider audience to use the product.
Everything is possible. It's even been talked about (usually
when all other topics of conversation have dried up). Here is a direct quote
from Dave Peet last April, which answers your question.
"Win4Lin does use modules for the several drivers it has, but there are
some things that are required to be done that just cannot efficiently or
safely
done just with modules. One can review the patches to see just what changes
have to be made to the kernel to support the modules. "
Thanks,
Mike
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